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To: maquiladora

Weapons grade Uranium!! So easy a cave man could do it.


2 posted on 10/03/2009 1:23:31 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Cheetahcat

I think that the plutonium bomb is the easy one.


39 posted on 10/05/2009 9:07:34 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Cheetahcat

IIRC, the first nuclear device was basically like a doughnut.
What made it go critical was a piece that was shoved into the center of the doughnut, and it reached critical mass.

This is a very, very simple design and does not require alot of high-tech switches, etc. If you had the uranium, a lathe, and a few other things, you could make one in your garage.


43 posted on 10/06/2009 5:51:09 AM PDT by djf (Some people are proud. Some people are curious. I'm proud that I'm curious!!)
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