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Originally Posted by Ducimus
I think any Arab nuclear device will most likely be delivered in the form a small package within a city, as opposed to a ballistic missle. In other words If any wackjob towelhead wants to drop a nuke on somebody, they do need a missle to do it.
as for the national debt, WOW. talk about alot of digits. geez
Its gonna take us a couple decades to put a dent in that!
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Small package requires miniturization technology. The towelheads can't even create a shotgun style uranium bomb yet (Fission style), let alone a precise explosion plutonium based soccerball style.
Nuke building 101:
The easiest way to build an atomic bomb (We are not on to Nukes yet) is to put 50 kg + of Uranium 235 (The Hiroshima bomb used 60kg)in the same place at the same time. Assuming that this Uranium is surrounded by about 4 cm of beryllium (To reflect the Nuetrons), you will achieve critical mass (And anyone standing near will have a very bad day). The way to put these elements together yet keep it from exploding is to use a shotgun type method to seperate part of the Uranium and keep the main amount of Uranium just below crticial mass. At the time of detonation, the remainder of the Uranium is slammed down the tube and into the main amount of Uranium (bringing the required amount together) which starts the energy release otherwise known as fission. Now the bad news - if you use the best type of Uranium 235 known, your weapon will have a weight of around 1000 lbs. At worst, it could be well over 2000 lbs. Slightly too big for a suitcase.
What the towelheads in Iran are up to:
They are in the process of enriching Uranium to make it somewhat nasty and unstable making their Uranium-235 weapons grade material (Only .7 percent of natural uranium 235 is of weapons grade - but that can be fixed with a reactor). The resulting weapon would still require the byryllium shield and not suitcase material. The goal is to get it to the 1000 lbs class variety.
Next lesson (Since this post is getting long) is Plutonium based weapons and fusion - you will never achieve the megaton + sized bomb (the Soviets made a few that were 100 Megaton) without fusion, even with tritium enhancements.
-S