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

The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On 21 Sep 2024 14:28:28 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
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The problem is that it's hard to purify uranium to make bombs because
that is a difficult physical process that involves separating out
isotopes by very small atomic mass differences, while purifying plutonium
is a comparatively easy chemical process.  So reactions that make
plutonium as a byproduct are frowned on by the UN crew, while reactions
whose decay products are anything other than plutonium are considered okay.

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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)

The Trinity and Nagasaki bombs were uranium bombs with substantial
plutonium initiators.  But yes, this is otherwise true.
--scott
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