An atom bomb is conceptually pretty simple. Handling the fissionable materials is the problem.
That's why I'm thinking the North Koreans may have come up with an LENR bomb. It's fairly powerful ~ sort of thing you could dig a new Panama Canal with. At the same time it has no dangerous fallout. That way you could pummel another country with LENR bombs without upsetting the folks in a different nearby country.
You could turn them into TACTICAL NUKES for use on the battlefield.
This may well have been the problem the Japanese encountered ~ they went whole hog down the avenue of research into Heavy Water and came up with an LENR bomb that little more than scattered all their otherwise useless enriched uranium.
There's no doubt the AEC and Department of Defense are watching these developments closely. I'd imagine the Chinese, Russian, etc. governments are also keeping their eyes on the situation.
I'd like to suggest that Rossi's closest competitor is actually the North Korean government and they know it.
Slamming a neutron into nickel, assuming the neutron "sticks", just gives you a new isotope of nickel. How that ends up a nuclear bomb is something you'll have to explain.
To further complicate things Rossi has just signed an agreement for National Instruments of Austin, Texas to build the monitoring and control instrumentation for manufacture of Rossi’s 1MW systems. NI confirms Rossi is a client with their “Big Physics” division that builds components for hot fusion reactors and particle accelerators.
Go figure.
Really unbelievable, mindless conjecture. Would you please throw in some lizard-man aliens and a UFO to make your story complete?
Powder..patch..ball FIRE!
You really don’t have a clue do you?