Do we (civilians) actually know how nukes work?

Do we (civilians) actually know how nukes work?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sorry Iran, make your own nukes

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Actually this is south kor- i mean howdy fellow yankee cowboy, hows the snow in arizona?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it's pretty cool ngl

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You can find out how nukes work by reading the wikipedia article.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They make a big boom. That's all the layman really needs to know.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    civilians generally know more than boots

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They explosively compress fissile material to reach critical mass and the fission reaction from that provides the energy for a second stage fusion reaction with lithium deuteride

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I mean the vast majority of nukes have been and are fission or boosted fission instead of full fusion devices but sure, you hold up that lone and context-starved pebble of knowledge like it's the world. After all, it's all you have.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Full fusion is super interesting stuff that could revoloutionize everything, theres fricking NOTHING about it on the web though

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wouldn't it be funny if U238 could sustain a chain reaction and all the cyclotrons and stuff were just a red herring?

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Do we (civilians) actually know how nukes work?
    Yes, for example, Turtledove will go over the process of building a functioning nuke from unprocessed Uranium ore to degree in his novels that would give Germany the edge to get the bomb first

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nukes are not very difficult to build and information is prone to get out eventually.
    The issue is getting the stuff you need, but if you have half a ton of weapons grade plutonium lying around, you could probably build a working nuke in a couple months.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Explicitly in terms of design? Not entirely.
    Mathematically and physical laws? Yes.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    bomb drops
    magic happens
    crater is left behind

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    yes.
    you take a radioactive isotope that has been enriched so that its neutron content is so heavily overloaded that it is near the verge of instability.

    Then, using carefully timed explosive force, you compress a certain amount of that substance in on itself, causing nuclear fission to occur and all of those excess neutrons to just go fricking flying everywhere, causing a cascading chain reaction of collapsing atoms in the substance, eventually causing pretty much all of it to fission and thus release an earthshattering amount of energy.

    That is how your basic b***h nuke works.
    The difficulty is in obtaining the enriched isotope and in properly timing the compressive explosive force to ensure proper compression

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Making the machine is easy
    The hard part is making the machine that makes the machine

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes. But the devil is in the details. Not easy exploding plutonium in a way it makes just the right shape. Gets even worse if you want that explosion to preserve structure that'll still remain and focus unimaginable energy into fusion fuel.

    Also the nukes are almost century old technology. Unlikely the superpowers stopped at that and didnt use all that energy for more interesting magic.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, and coming up with functional, detailed designs is so easy using publicly available material the feds have confiscated and redacted reports by several college students who tried reverse-engineering one for shits and giggles.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sure. It's the infrastructure to produce one that's hard. Every physicist and their mother could tell you the design, but having the capacity to build it takes a wealthy country or a crazy country

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >but having the capacity to build it takes a wealthy country or a crazy country
      In a pinch a very wealthy industrial magnate will do, I mean, no one has stopped me yet..

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