End of Surplus?

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Randy McLaughlin" <cctech at randy482.com>
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>A friend of mine was a weapons office on a USN sub, one day we were talking 
>about terrorists making a bomb.  He started by saying the technology is 
>above their heads.  My response was get a bucket and put enough fissionable 
>material in it and boom.

Hi
 It is a little more complicated than that. You method would just make
a big pile of hot radioactive mess. No boom. If you put it in something
that would also evaporate, you could make a mess like Chernobel (sp?).
To make a bomb, you have to quickly cause a large number of neutrons
with the right energy level. You also have to contain it long eneough
for things to multiply before it pushes it self apart.
 Making a small bomb is beyond most anyones capabilities. Making
a really large one is not as hard.
Dwight

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>He said it wouldn't be efficient and you wouldn't no when it would blow, I 
>said who cares if you have a nuclear explosion in a major city that's 
>terrorism.
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>Randy
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