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Article #4367Re: The H-Bomb secret is out
From: Mcirvin
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 23:21
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 23:21
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steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes: >someone who knows the answer told me that >the essence of the problem can be pieced together by >a _smart_ graduate student with a decent computer in >6-12 months, and a _good_ student should be able to >solve the problem given the hints in unclassified literature, >as opposed to fission bombs which are designable by an >average physics grad. It would probably take me a while to design a working fission bomb using plutonium... but a bomb using enriched U-235 is quite simple. -- Matt McIrvin, posting nonsense again
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