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To: bentway who wrote (271843)	2/3/2006 8:43:41 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) of 1571928

"Certainly designs for nukes have improved greatly." Yes they have. But a bomb that can be built without testing and/or using information off the Internet or any public information source isn't going to be a whole lot different than what existed 60 years ago. Every country that has developed nuclear bombs, save the US, has had help from someone else or they have spent a lot of time and money building up the knowledge to build the weapons. People here like to pretend like there is a "Golden Book of Nuclear Weapons" that lays out everything needed to build deliverable weapons. There isn't. Nor can you go to college and get enough information to help all that much. Granted, a lot of the equations about nuclear cross sections and all can be learned in college, but they were known when the US, Germany, the USSR and to a lesser extent, Japan, started working in earnest on nuclear weapons more than 60 years ago. Other than a gun type, nuclear weapons are difficult to build and take a lot of resources and research. Even if you handed terrorists a perfectly machined sphere of plutonium, they would still be extremely unlikely to build something that didn't just fizzle.

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