To: Olog-hai
There's a BIG difference between having the materials and making the final product.
Ever tried putting up dry wall or ceramic tiling? Both looked easy to me. The final product was, well, less than satisfactory.
Multiply that times the National Debt and you are in the ball park of the degree of difficulty of making a fission bomb.
7 posted on
05/26/2012 9:39:42 AM PDT by
Mikey_1962
(Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
To: Mikey_1962
It’s the “nuclear umbrella” principle, ultimately. Besides, even dirty bombs would be satisfactory to Hezbollah and Hamas.
11 posted on
05/26/2012 9:45:44 AM PDT by
Olog-hai
To: Mikey_1962
Yeah. We did it with slide rules and non-automated machine tools.
And we didn’t even know if it could even be done when we started.
14 posted on
05/26/2012 9:51:20 AM PDT by
null and void
(Day 1222 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
To: Mikey_1962
“difficulty of making a fission bomb”
What makes you think they need to?
18 posted on
05/26/2012 9:55:07 AM PDT by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Mikey_1962
I don't think a fission bomb is all that hard to build, once you have enough of the right kind of fissionables.
Building a working fusion (thermonuclear) bomb seems to be considerably more complicated.
30 posted on
05/26/2012 10:46:28 AM PDT by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Mikey_1962
Sorry, but the “hard” part is acquiring the fissile material that is high quality.
The rest is relatively easy.
It doesn’t matter much that the result is “dirty” or inefficient at turning most of the material into energy.
33 posted on
05/26/2012 11:06:11 AM PDT by
DB
To: Mikey_1962
Your drywall and tiling job probably would have turned out OK if you had an experienced Russian contractor at your side giving you pointers.
37 posted on
05/26/2012 12:58:56 PM PDT by
TigersEye
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