You said -- "No, he did not. He thought that Tritium, a booster material, was an atomic trigger."
Well..., I'm not so sure you know what you're talking about either. But that doesn't matter because I'm not going to formulate my opinion of whether bombs are going to be smuggled in this country -- on the basis of nuclear triggers. Where there's a will, there's a way -- as the saying goes.
History is full of disasters that have happened that people said couldn't happen. So, prudent measures require us to assume that it *can happen* and then take measures to act upon that belief.
Regards,
Star Traveler
History is also full of disasters due to people over-estimating their enemies...a mistake as fatal or more so than under-estimating them.
But the kid who got banned wasn't doing either over or under estimating...he was spreading erroneous information such as Tritium being an atomic trigger, gun assemblies not needing triggers, etc.