Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On 9/25/2024 2:11 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
 > Very true - which is why EVERY American nuke (excluding Little Boy,
 > the Hiroshima bomb) has been a plutonium bomb. (I have read the during
 > the 1950s they built another as an experimental device but never used
 > it and it was subsequently disassembled and melted down)
Sorry, that's not true.  The Mk-18 bomb exploded in the Ivy King test
contained no plutonium.  The current B-61 and B-83 bombs and W-80
warheads still contain U-235, and the US also tested a couple of
Uranium Hydride core bombs which were both fizzles.
The United States has a stockpile of about 480 tons of Highly
Enriched U-235, plus a ton or two of U-233, which is a sunk cost.
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