Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:37:36 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: weaponized ping-pong balls
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 02/11/13 15:22, Mike B. wrote:
> 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.

I liked the Mother Jones issue that published it. It looked like so much
fun, putting the material to be centrifuged into a bucket, standing in
your living room, and spinning around holding the bucket for half an
hour....

mark "why is the world spinning?"

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