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Talk:United Kingdom atomic weapons program: The full Penney Report (1947)

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Everything in this picture is basically public knowledge. There is no misdirection OR direction here. One can deduce this much about the interior of Fat Man from the wikipedia articles. The barriers to entry in the implosion nuke market are not basic diagrams of the interior of the weapon, its the fissile material, precision manufacturing, math, detonators, and overall massive infrastructure required to pull a working example OF the design of.

Its all well and good having a diagram of the space shuttle to, but you still need the expertise, technology, and industry to build it.

Hell NK apparently got one to go pop but they couldnt make it go BANG.

Most third world nations would have a much easier time building a gun type weapon (IE little boy), but these weapons are relatively weak, large, and very wasteful of fissile material. They are also inherently dangerous. South Africa purportedly built a few in the 70's (check dates) I believe but dismantled them. Not nearly as hard but not nearly as effective a technology. Diagrams also exist of the little boy setup, but im yet to see Iran test one.

>> South Africa purportedly built a few in the 70's (check dates) <<
No, they did not. The apartheid's gun-type bombs were made by the zionists, in exchange for 550 tons of raw uranium supplied by aparthed for Dimona. The celebration of that mutual deal was the 3kT neutron bomb test usually known as the "Vela incident". This was revealed by the ex-military minister of apartheid in 1997. He was forced to retract some days later. The bombs have been dismantled and the A-bomb storage shelters are now tourist attraction. 1.0.22.53 11:05, 17 March 2008 (GMT)

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