>>> Less than one kilogram of Plutonium-239 is required for a implosion nuclear device.
How come no terroristfags haven't yet succeeded in figuring out how to build the ultimate terror device. Is it because people like ISIS adhere only to Aryan physics and shit?
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Pu 239 dosen't grow up on trees.
And you still need to build the motherfucking bomb properly, it's not just about putting a spoonful of plutonium in a suicide vest and doing the allahu akbar.
>less than 1kg
Nuclear engineer here, not true. Even weapons grade plutonium (~90% 239Pu) has a critical mass around 10kg
and the main safeguard against nuclear proliferation is how difficult to acquire/construct and expensive all the infrastructure to build a weapon is. With this is mind, it's more or less impossible to acquire a nuclear weapon through espionage unless you're a state actor, and typically one with outside support with the exception of Russia
Yeah building the bomb is pretty much placing the explosives correctly once you've stolen the plutonium from drunk russians. Then you can go allahu snakbar.
It's also possible to build a successful bomb (not just making it fizzle) out of pure reactor grade uranium. Then it'd be bigger though.
>How come no terroristfags haven't yet succeeded in figuring out how to build the ultimate terror device.
they have, Fat Man was one in fact. It killed between 40,000 and 80,000 civilians.
Is it much harder than just mashing two 5kg pieces together?
The critical mass required can be lowered with neutron reflectors, fusion boosting and by increasing densities temporarily with high explosives.
Reactor grade uranium is only about 2% enrichment. A nuclear bomb needs about 90% enrichment otherwise the chain reaction will not work.
ITT people that have no idea how hard it is to make nuclear weapons
just lmao at how dumb these posts are
