Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00270)

	In the United States, there was a furor over several high school and
college students who came up with designs and built theoretically
working nuclear bombs, provided that they had the fissionable material.
These stories were juxtaposed with other stories about bomb-grade
plutonium missing. What the news stories failed to mention was that the
students' bombs were uranium-based, requiring bomb-grade uranium. To
build a plutonium bomb requires far more technical expertise. The point
is that the existence of bomb-grade plutonium is not good, but it is not
a disaster, either.

	Bart Lidofsky

Hazarapet@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/21/99 9:41:36 AM Central Standard Time,
> bartl@sprynet.com writes:
>
> > plutonium bombs are FAR more
> >  complex
>
> I don't know about high school students.  But are
> you referring to the difference between a fission bomb
> and a fission-fusion-fission bomb or some other
> distinction?
>
> Grigor
>
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