Timeline for Everything has a tiny nuclear reactor in it. How much of a concern are illegal nuclear bombs?
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| Jul 5 at 22:44 | comment | added | thegreatemu | Fun fact: gun-type bombs are so easy to build that they didn't even bother to test the Little Boy design before dropping it. | |
| Jul 5 at 14:52 | comment | added | kenod | True, thanks. Wasn't really certain how to explain that in a good (and fully accurate) manner, so I sort of skipped over it. | |
| Jul 5 at 14:50 | comment | added | Jay McEh | Quibble: collision force doesn't "trigger" a nuclear explosion the way it can for many conventional explosives. Nuclear explosions are what happens when one assembles a big enough pile of fissionables (give or take some neutron moderators/reflectors), and will cheerfully go off without so much as a nudge. The trick is assembling that big enough pile, because small explosions keep scattering your pile before you can get enough together for a truly impressive boom. Gun and implosion types are both methods to to "assemble" very quickly; the collision force is a largely irrelevant side effect. | |
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| S Jul 4 at 15:12 | history | answered | kenod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |