....Israel destroyed the NK warheads .....
Matter can neither be created or destroyed.
How could they destroy bombgrade fissionable material?
Unless stolen, it is still there.
Well, if they used a nuclear bomb to destroy the building, nobody's going near it. That might be the real reason for the big silence - the first use of nuclear weapons in war since WWII.
Not in any usable form. It would be vaporized and strewn across hundreds of square miles. We don’t even know what type of weapons Israel used on the facility. Would take a long time to clean up the facility and even longer to recover the scattered material, if that’s even possible. Would be somewhat akin to the incident where a US B-52 carrying multiple nuclear warheads crashed and/or dumped its cargo to avoid crashing somewhere in Spain. Real nasty aftermath. No detonations, but there was dispersal. Not a short-term cleanup.
I wish I could remember where I read (and who knows if true), that the soldiers on the ground “took” something of interest.
you can’t destroy matter but you can change it’s character(such as changing wood into energy), blowing up fissionable material would make it unsuitable for making bombs. Instead of big pieces needed to cause a nuke reaction, you would have little pieces with some of it turned to energy, or do you think bomb grade material will withstand a conventional explosion?
Other reports / speculation have the Israeli commandoes inside the buildings stealing stuff before the bombing raid. Would fit perfectly.
“Matter can neither be created or destroyed” - bert
It correct statement is *energy* can neither be created nor destroyed - just transformed.
You point however is still good - if it wasn’t removed it is still there. It will likely be really messy to reconcentrate however.
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Plutonium is highly combustible. Turn it into plutonium-oxide soot drifting through the air, and it is no longer usable for bomb making