To: Flavius
That’s not much actually.
3 posted on
05/07/2007 2:44:04 PM PDT by
Centurion2000
(Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
To: Centurion2000
Even if it has not been enriched at all yet, it still contains over 2,700 pounds of U235, which could be extracted and used to build fission bombs like the one that destroyed Hiroshima. That’s enough fissionable material for a few dozen bombs of that size.
8 posted on
05/07/2007 2:57:00 PM PDT by
3niner
(War is one game where the home team always loses.)
To: Centurion2000
Good point. It isn’t aluminum, for instance.
9 posted on
05/07/2007 6:00:30 PM PDT by
PghBaldy
(Reporter: Are you surprised? Nancy Pelosi: No. My eyes always look like this.)
To: Centurion2000
I'm well aware of the atomic weight of uranium -- but, still, over a half million pounds is a lot of uranium hexafluoride gas...
12 posted on
05/07/2007 7:46:19 PM PDT by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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