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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.'"
Ah, the reductive argument to develop a US slam. You only sit at +3 as of this posting, but I expect my Slashdot brethren to see the power of your intelligences and give you the +5 you deserve.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_of_Iran
The Shah, we 'installed' (your term) was their rightful ruler under their own system of government, and could trace his lineage as such back to 1501. His family had been rulers since 1925, so, where did we (the USA) install him?
North Korea may have a semi stable government but the people are starving.
Good thing we don't have anybody starving in the good ol U.S. of A.
Only on slashdot would someone be stupid enough to claim that overthrowing the Shah was "wrong".
Watch this Heartland Institute video
That's not good enough. As long as the US has a single nuclear weapon, it has no place telling anyone else they can't have nuclear weapons.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!