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Wikileaks Releases Early Atomic Bomb Diagram
An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks has released a diagram of the first atomic weapon, as used in the Trinity test and subsequently exploded over the Japanese city of Nagasaki, together with an extremely interesting scientific analysis. Wikileaks has not been able to fault the document or find reference to it elsewhere. Given the high quality of other Wikileaks submissions, the document may be what it purports to be, or it may be a sophisticated intelligence agency fraud, designed to mislead the atomic weapons development programs of countries like Iran. The neutron initiator is particularly novel. 'When polonium is crushed onto beryllium by explosion, reaction occurs between polonium alpha emissions and beryllium leading to Carbon-12 & 1 neutron. This, in practice, would lead to a predictable neutron flux, sufficient to set off device.'"
I have tried to make a bomb with this diagram and I have had no problems with the designs. I guess it must b[NO CARRIER]
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Now where did I leave my spare polonium?
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
...until the design which involves a pringles can is available.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
"...atomic weapons development programs of countries like Iran"
Starting to believe in your own propaganda can be an indicator that there is something in your tap water.
Now that Wikileaks has the bomb, people will think twice about trying to shut it down!
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
I think you win for the most wildly inappropriate use of the winking smiley in Internet history.
"wikileaks has XXX up"
No shit? CHECKING IT OUT RIGHT NOW!
There, fixed that for ya.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I was wondering what to do with my little brother for his 6th grade science competition. Thanks Wikileaks!
All those parts, they are part of a pinball machine.
You seem to know your way around making bombs. Say, would you be interested in moving to Tehran?
If so, drop me a message.
Full Tilt
does not mean that you should. This may be a primitive nuclear weapon, and it may even be incomplete, but FFS. It's a nuclear weapon. A weapon of mass destruction. We don't have to worry about only rogue governments using WMDs, we also have to worry about a well-funded group of fanatical terrorists, who have members perfectly willing to die to attack their enemies.
I'm usually among the first to excoriate the Bush Administration for their fear mongering, power grabs, and excesses, but *come on*.
Cat's out of the bag on this one, but I would not be upset at all if Wikileaks got shut down and the responsible parties sent to prison for the rest of their lives.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
Don't forget, Iran is a DEMOCRACY; they just had an election yesterday! And SURPRISE! The religious radicals who have been running the country for the last 28 years won again! Hooray for democracy! The Iranian people have spoken!
After reading the posts in this thread I can conclude that the world really is full of idiots.
I have mod points. The reign of terror begins now.
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