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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (302331)9/30/2002 1:19:38 PM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
I used to work on warhead designs....your numbers aren't close. You're working with theoretical numbers that we don't achieve, let alone Iraq, they would be decades away from achieving high yield weapons.

If you want a flavor of how real weapons translate to yield, you should be able to find the amount of fissionable material that was used for the bombs in Japan/WWII....Maybe you'll find the amount of fissionable material used in Atlas and the Titan missile systems. No longer operational, some of the warhead information might be available. But I don't know whether Atlas and Titan information has been declassified. The bombs used in WWI were declassified...during the Reagan Administration, BTW. Iran has copies obtained through the FOIA.

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