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Old 07-May-2006, 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Ara Pacis
I think the terrorist threat of nuclear weapons may be under-estimated. There are some claims that even reactor grade uranium and plutonium could be made into nuclear bombs. They would not be efficient, but they could yield up to a kiloton, more than enough to take down one or more skyscrapers.
uranium is more safe to work, but requires too much mass for bomb, plutonium requires very little mass, for example if you use magnetic separator, then you can make either 5 uranium bombs per year, either 100 plutonium bombs. so it is actualy quite easy, if you have plutonium.
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