Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:22:21 -0500
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: weaponized ping-pong balls
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 2/11/2013 9:55 AM, Barry Newton wrote:
> Ping pong balls, phooey!  I understand that if you search hard enough,
> you can find detailed plans for nuclear bombs.  And possibly receive
> visits from earnest young men in bad suits.

Probably not anymore...not since Analog published details of the entire
procedure, including where and how to get fissionable materials.  Not
sure what year that was...sometime in the late 80s I think.

It wasn't a really big bomb...only about 10 Kt...and it wasn't portable
(it filled the basement of a house), but it wasn't too hard to
build...if you had basic construction skills and enough expendable workmen.

-- Mike B.