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There are a few magazines who seem to try and
increase sales with super-sensational covers that
are more exciting than the story inside. The August
issue of "Popular Mechanics" is one I am familar
with and the cover shouts:"America's Worst
Nightmare...HOMEBUILT H-BOMBS! Cold fusion
Technology enables anyone to build a nuke from
commonly available materials." The article tells
about an explosion that occurred in a cold fusion
lab and shows a number of ways to produce the
weapons grade uranium and speaks of the need
to produce TRITIUM for use in an H-bomb but
never goes into any details...of course.
My question is : Does this article and others
like it hold any merit? What does it take to do
what I consider a very difficult task of making a
neclear weapon from common materials?
(I know that a college student
wrote a paper for credit in the 1970's or 80's and
told in detail how to build an atomic bomb and
when the F.B.I. came and questioned him he
explained he got most of the information from
books he checked out of the local library and
calls he made to some scientists. (One problem
he asked about was the method used to compress
the uranium so it created a critical mass. The
scientist told him the way to do it.)
increase sales with super-sensational covers that
are more exciting than the story inside. The August
issue of "Popular Mechanics" is one I am familar
with and the cover shouts:"America's Worst
Nightmare...HOMEBUILT H-BOMBS! Cold fusion
Technology enables anyone to build a nuke from
commonly available materials." The article tells
about an explosion that occurred in a cold fusion
lab and shows a number of ways to produce the
weapons grade uranium and speaks of the need
to produce TRITIUM for use in an H-bomb but
never goes into any details...of course.
My question is : Does this article and others
like it hold any merit? What does it take to do
what I consider a very difficult task of making a
neclear weapon from common materials?
(I know that a college student
wrote a paper for credit in the 1970's or 80's and
told in detail how to build an atomic bomb and
when the F.B.I. came and questioned him he
explained he got most of the information from
books he checked out of the local library and
calls he made to some scientists. (One problem
he asked about was the method used to compress
the uranium so it created a critical mass. The
scientist told him the way to do it.)