Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: plutonium Message-ID: <617@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 18:46:52 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.617 Posted: Tue Aug 13 18:46:52 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 02:46:31 EDT Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 31 In article <377@baylor.UUCP> peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >...I was talking about a rifle-type bomb, where 2 subcritical masses are >brought together. This WON'T work! How many sub-critical masses do you know that would allow themselves to be seen together? Most sub-critical masses are social climbers, spending their summers in Francium trying to pick up some alpha particles. Most of them feel that's they're better off hanging about with noble gasses that don't react to them at all, than sticking together for a more explosive situation. The result? Higher bomb prices for the American consumer! >It's still EASIER to build a hiroshima-bomb than a nagasaki-bomb. Let's see YOU do it! I bet you couldn't built a hiroshima-bomb without a lot of government funding! I've never heard such a bold claim! This stupid Plutonium debate has been going on too long! Get your facts straight, Peter! Plutonium is ONLY available in an off-the-shelf disposable spray-can. Any terrorist group wanting to built a bomb from it would have to get the granulated variety, only available to foodservice organizations. In order to do this, they would have to get a permit -- and the US government does not give permits to unlicensed terrorists. -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "I was going to say something really profound, but I forgot what it was." -Rev. Wang Zeep