Gun type bombs are easy but require massively more of said hard to refine material. Implosion type bombs require very precisely times and shaped explosive lenses.
>just get some weapons grade fissile material bro
You must be 18 to post here.
Also making bombs smaller is extremely hard. A simple naive gun-type like little boy has a weight measured in metric tons. Getting that down to even ICBM size was a major technical achievement, and artillery/demo charge more so.
Further, the known technical means all involve tradeoffs with maintenance. Injecting tritium for example can be a boost. But tritium has a short half-life, so now the warhead needs regular refreshing.
Most global powers take counter proliferation seriously and the IC and counter terror units of the modern world are really good at their jobs.
Yes this. Any warhead that goes off will be treated as the responsibility of whoever made it with all that entails. Keeping a firm lid on their nukes is one of the few things even shit regimes take very seriously.
Even if they could get their hands on some refined material the chances of them irradiating themselves in a demon core type incident are far higher than actually constructing a weapon out of it.
There were some boog memes that were pretty funny, at the start when the idea was somewhat novel
But as the people making them were trying to come up with new stuff, they just started writing walls of text which are inherently unfunny
Memes need to be short and concise with a clear setup and punchline. Overly descriptive scenarios are the opposite of that
I'm not a threat to innocent people like the government is, just protecting my land and my people from the government. Have no intentions to hurt innocent people just to protect and defend the ones I love.
The government will kill you for being brown so I don't really have a choice, it's only right to protect the ones you love
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People who are brown have the unlucky situation of being victims of the actions performed by the implied majority of those who have interaction with he government. >Tldr - stereotypes exist for a bloody good reason.
They call us "terrorists" while they blow up kids in Palestine
We don't want terror, we want peace and prosperity for the American people
So the only government title I will accept is "armed insurgent" because it's technically accurate
But we are just normal Americans that own guns and care about our collapsing nation
You can call us anything you like, but God is not on the side of the oppressor
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You say all this shit but still can't be bothered to go to your town hall meetings (a place one determined person has consistently been shown to be able to make significant change in).
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8===D
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>God is not on the side of the oppressor
The book of Judges says otherwise you dumb fucking boogmoron. Actually read your damn Bible.
I get that none of them are funny, especially now
but god damnit, I am just so bored, depressed and delousional I just want to watch the government colapse
Anon, nobody on the internet is capable of feeling ashamed of how they act for a minimum of ten years. You won't see retarded cum /chug/gers saying "man I was dumb in retrospect" until at minimum 2034.
This shit is incredibly hard because it requires coordination nation-state level resources, at which point why are you engaging in terrorism, because you already are running a relatively prosperous sovereign country.
It also is relatively pointless for the purposes of terrorism, which is to achieve political aims by creating fear. There are much cheaper, easier ways to create essentially the same amount of fear.
Stolen soviet warheads? None that have been made public record. Missing nuclear materiel? Yes, though in the few cases I've read about it wasn't weapons grade material so much as low grade nuclear fuel disappearing from nuclear lighthouses in Siberia. There was one story i can't remember the details of where actual nuclear fuel (again not refined to weapons grade) being sold after the collapse but without the industrial refinement capabilities that can't be used for anything more than a dirty bomb.
Also majority of terrorists are dumbfuck radicals who resort to harming random civilian targets for no specific reason, usually with whatever tool they find right in front of them like a vehicle or gun because they're too stupid to actually coordinate anything more elaborate. The kind of groups more intelligent, resourceful, and capable than that (think the 911 plotters) usually get caught by the intelligence agencies before they can get too far.
Side note warheads have a shelf life, requiring expensive highly technical maintenance and upkeep. Russian warheads are known to expire faster than US ones too.
It's the tritium initiator that has to be replaced every decade, we now know the plutonium pit can last up to a century. Previously it was thought the cores needed replacement every 30 years or so.
Sourcing the necessary elements to replace the initiator is easier than getting a bomb or weapon grade plutonium (i.e. with most of the Pu-240 removed from it)
>Didn't a lot of warheads go missing during the collapse of the Soviet Union?
There's like two people who have claimed that. One guy with connections in the black market who said it in some documentary but had zero proof, and one guy in a western Navy (don't even remember if American) who said that after meeting a submarine admiral post-collapse he offered to sell the vessel with the nukes included.
If any warhead went missing, it had to be a retarded accident like an airplane crashing and the bomb ending up in the ocean or driving itself into the dirt like it happened to the US.
>why haven't they been used
they simply no longer work. To get a nuke go off you need radioactive material. To get smaller nuke you need radioactive material that's more radioactive. Remember what radioactive means? It literally disintegrates into radio waves at it's own.
>To get smaller nuke you need radioactive material that's more radioactive.
Not true. You use a neutron-reflecting layer around the core and an inner core of some neutron producing isotope to boost the neutron flux through the fissile material. The fissile material is the same though, either U-233, U-235, or Pu-239. If you want more deets go to a library and read a book.
I just finished first season of the Jack Ryan TV show and I'm wondering, would that sort of "nuclear" attack be feasible?
For those unfamiliar, an isotope of cesium (I'm not sure which) ground up to a few pounds of very fine dust and released into the ventilation system of a hospital in an attempt to irradiate the entire building with a deadly dose
> On 23 November [1995], [Shamil] Basayev announced on the Russian NTV television channel, that four cases of radioactive material had been hidden around Moscow. Russian emergency teams roamed the city with Geiger counters, and located several canisters of Caesium, which had been stolen from the Budennovsk hospital by the Chechen militants. The incident has been called "the most important sub-state use of radiological material."
you can get cesium-137 from x ray machines which are in hospitals
a bunch of Hispanics fried themselves this way when they decided to scrap an xray machine and decided to make garden gnomeelry out of the glowing blue powder
The issue is not to pack critical mass of uranium inside a suitcase.
The issue is to produce it. First of all, you need a sheer volume of uranium ore to process it into something useful. And from how rare uranium within that ore is, you need to get a shitton of it, literally tons.
Then you need to dissolve it all with acid to get uranium out.
You can't do it at home and you can't do it in yard. You need basically an entire mining site.
Then of course all the waste you produce doesn't go unnoticed.
And after you got uranium ore, to enrich it you need to separate it. Usually it is done by binding it to fluorine and putting it in centrifuges, which is very expensive piece of equipment.
So you need shitton of money, shitton of work, shitton of digging, transport large volumes of rock, dissolve them.
Basically to produce a nuke you need a large factory and a large mining site and specific equipment that you can't produce on your own since it's even more difficult than the other processes I mentioned.
So it's impossible to do it in secrecy. And if people know that you are producing it, they will know what you do with it too.
>And after you got uranium ore, to enrich it you need to separate it.
This is simply not true. U-235 is NOT the preferred fissile material for bombs specifically because it requires so much starting material and the Uranium is so difficult to enrich. Breeding Pu-239 and chemically separating it from the Uranium is much easier. Natural Uranium (99% 238, 0.7% 235) is still just barely enough to get a sustained reaction going with a decent moderator. Heavy water is expensive. Graphite is not. And operating such a breeder reactor at a low power output offers better control of the reaction, making a Chernobyl-type accident less likely. Something like the B Reactor at Hanford would be able to produce enough material for a bomb every few months, and that was literally just a giant block of graphite with fuel and water channels.
The tricky part is not over-exposing the fuel or you get an undesirable level of Pu-240 mixed in with the Pu-239. Pu-240 is less stable, so you end up severely limiting the upper yield of the fission device. If you want to go higher, you need a fusion stage, and that requires at least as much Plutonium, plus Lithium Hydride, and a casing made on U-238 and Lead with specific geometry to reflect the fission explosion toward the fusion stage.
But making the fission stage small is not hard at all. A simple 2-point detonation bomb can be under 2ft long and under 1ft diameter. Not very efficient, but it works.
The box doesn't have to fit on a desktop. It can be a room that is sealed and holds all the equipment needed for processing. You don't want to handle Pu when it comes out of the reactor with only gloves anyway. It's way too hot for anything other than machines to handle for several weeks/months depending on how long it was cooking,
Size isn't the problem, stop using first gen designs as an argument, you can fit a 10-20 kt bomb in a 30 kg backpack since at least the early 70s. How implosion-type bombs can be miniaturized and simplified to hell is still one of the best kept secret on Earth, so people still believe you need big and extremely complex explosive lenses with krytrons to synchronise detonation like Fat Man. B61s can yield up to 340kt and the payload itself only weighs about 200 kg.
The biggest issue is sourcing the device. Terrorists are more likely to make a dirty bomb or fit a full-sized warhead in a truck than stumble upon a mini-nuke ready to be transported on their back.
>How implosion-type bombs can be miniaturized and simplified to hell is still one of the best kept secret on Earth
It's really not. You center your hollow core inside a cylindrical casing, set a pair of circular plates (smaller than the casing diameter but not by much) a short distance away from the core, and fill the casing completely with your plasticized explosive of choice (C4, PBX, etc.). When the explosive material is detonated at both ends the blast will travel inwards, go around the circular plates, and become toroidal in doing so. These expanding toroidal blast waves will converge on the core and crush it into the necessary density. For best results you will need a not quite spherical core and you will need to work out the diameter and spacing on the plates. This is the design for the first 2-point detonation bomb. Other, more efficient s-point designs have been made since then, and single-point detonation designs are even in production today.
The reason that no private nuclear arsenals exist is because the kind of people who want to have nukes tend to fuck goats, and the kind of people with the skills to make breeder reactors and work out the geometry of nuclear bomb components spend years in university learning calculus, physics, and coding to get a high paying job. Very little overlap.
The guy extracts U-238 from uranium ore.
Even this takes a lot of work, but if you were to use U-238 a gun type bomb, you would not get a nuclear detonation since it doesn't go supercritical.
You need to extract U-235 from the U-238 using a large amount of centrifuges.
It's A LOT of energy extensive, complicated and expensive work, only a few countries are proficient at it.
For plutonium breeding you need a nuclear reactor either way.
Better question is why no one has blown up a normal bomb surrounded by radioactive waste to dirty bomb a city. Seems like it would be much easier to pull off with how corrupt the Asian and Middle Eastern nuclear powers are.
You overestimate the corruption in this sector. Nuclear materials are pretty heavily regulated and tracked by international organizations and intelligence agencies around the globe.
There are only very few instances of radioactive material going missing. Sure both the US and the SU lost a nuclear weapon here and there but they rest peacefully at the bottom of oceans and lakes...
https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html
The fact that incidents like nuclear terrorism with dirty bombs doesn't happen would be empirical proof alone that the system of international observation works.
>system of international observation works.
reminds me of how after the vatnik union imploded observers went to work in russia an immediately sumbled across a unguarded nook launch site with its door open. Nobody home as the staff had not been payed so they fucked off and went home not giving a fuck
Nooks have absolutely gone into the wild, specially after the implosion of the vatnik union. It is just either the arming codes were not included or they were rotten soviet duds used for scamming the buyer. The soviet shit was not very good to begin with even when still factory fresh. For obvious reasons both sides decided to keep hush hush about the incidents while the more responsible side tried to quietly recover the defunct nooks in the wild. Some of these black market ones were also acquired by the likes of iran, china and best korea. Looking for pointers on how to improve their versions or just straight copy it. For norks in particular there was even a big scandal when they got caught one time in kamchatkas sub docks
its actually part of the reason why you havent seen any car capable fusion reactor engines let out of classified labs. because they are easy to turn into boom booms you just crank the dial up on the feeback loop control system into a positive feedback loop
I love that you schizo's, who aim shit like this, are the next mi ute talking about how the government can't do anything right. And are all incompetent.
i am schizo but i also have a degree in electrical engineering as well as particle physics and ive spent the last ten years working on computational complexity and the math behind making a working prototype.
so please before you spout off any bullshit publish a proof that a small fusion nuclear reaction engine is impossible mathematically before you go on being the gay moron you are
You're a grad student with no published papers that isn't liked by his professor coping on the internet about how experienced and professional you are.
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and you have none of those educational backgrounds yet still claim to know more about nuclear physics than me
there's got to be at least one rusting away in a half collapsed concrete bunker in the urals or something. Look at all those RTGs and other shit the rooskies left lying around.
Probably not, because after the fall of the Soviet Union, the US was worried about such an scenario. So they sent a fuckton of money and equipment and even people to install systems of security clearance at nuclear weapon facilities or container for nuclear materials: > "... another important contribution was seen when the US sent storage containers to Russia to store fissionable material under Russian control. The US provided "10,000 fissile material storage containers by the end of 1995 and a total of nearly 33,000 containers by early 1997".[12] These containers aided in Russia's ability to store nuclear material from dismantled warheads. Another contribution from the US to Russia was "75 million dollars to help Russia build a new fissile material storage facility at Chelyabinsk for plutonium "pits" from dismantled warheads".[12] The Nuclear Threat Reduction program was not just used to remove everything fissionable from Russia; it also included ideas for safe storage and transportation of fissionable material in Russia built up during the Cold War."
...
> "260 tons of fissile material received security upgrades
60 nuclear warhead storage sites received security upgrades
35 percent of Russian chemical weapons received security upgrades
49 former biological weapons facilities were converted to joint U.S.–Russian research under what were known as the Biological Threat Reduction Integrating Contracts
4 biological weapons sites received security improvements"
>just get some weapons grade fissile material bro
You must be 18 to post here.
Most global powers take counter proliferation seriously and the IC and counter terror units of the modern world are really good at their jobs.
Refining nuclear material is hard.
Gun type bombs are easy but require massively more of said hard to refine material. Implosion type bombs require very precisely times and shaped explosive lenses.
Also making bombs smaller is extremely hard. A simple naive gun-type like little boy has a weight measured in metric tons. Getting that down to even ICBM size was a major technical achievement, and artillery/demo charge more so.
Further, the known technical means all involve tradeoffs with maintenance. Injecting tritium for example can be a boost. But tritium has a short half-life, so now the warhead needs regular refreshing.
Yes this. Any warhead that goes off will be treated as the responsibility of whoever made it with all that entails. Keeping a firm lid on their nukes is one of the few things even shit regimes take very seriously.
Even if they could get their hands on some refined material the chances of them irradiating themselves in a demon core type incident are far higher than actually constructing a weapon out of it.
That "meme" is extremely cringe
i hope all of those 2020 "boog" gays feel embarrassed now
They lack the part of the brain that causes shame or self-respect.
Getting this triggered by a funny joke.
NGMI
You will NEVER be a warrior, booger boi
4chan is down the hall. champ.
There were some boog memes that were pretty funny, at the start when the idea was somewhat novel
But as the people making them were trying to come up with new stuff, they just started writing walls of text which are inherently unfunny
Memes need to be short and concise with a clear setup and punchline. Overly descriptive scenarios are the opposite of that
says who?
>Memes need to be short
No
need to be short
>No
They're FaceBerg "people," they lack shame.
I saw the military deployed in DC and have seen the government kill people in person, but I'm not a "boog" guy just an armed insurgent
I'm not a threat to innocent people like the government is, just protecting my land and my people from the government. Have no intentions to hurt innocent people just to protect and defend the ones I love.
The government will kill you for being brown so I don't really have a choice, it's only right to protect the ones you love
People who are brown have the unlucky situation of being victims of the actions performed by the implied majority of those who have interaction with he government.
>Tldr - stereotypes exist for a bloody good reason.
>I'm not a "boog" guy
Yes you are otherwise you wouldn't have made this exact response.
I don't want a civil war
The Patriots don't want a civil war
We just want a nation to be proud of
They call us "terrorists" while they blow up kids in Palestine
We don't want terror, we want peace and prosperity for the American people
So the only government title I will accept is "armed insurgent" because it's technically accurate
But we are just normal Americans that own guns and care about our collapsing nation
You can call us anything you like, but God is not on the side of the oppressor
You say all this shit but still can't be bothered to go to your town hall meetings (a place one determined person has consistently been shown to be able to make significant change in).
8===D
>God is not on the side of the oppressor
The book of Judges says otherwise you dumb fucking boogmoron. Actually read your damn Bible.
I get that none of them are funny, especially now
but god damnit, I am just so bored, depressed and delousional I just want to watch the government colapse
Be the change you wanna see in the world anon
Do something about it (you won't)
Anon, nobody on the internet is capable of feeling ashamed of how they act for a minimum of ten years. You won't see retarded cum /chug/gers saying "man I was dumb in retrospect" until at minimum 2034.
Explain to me how this dude is going to weaponize uranium and conceal it.
he rounds up the nerds and orders them to do it at gunpoint
This shit is incredibly hard because it requires coordination nation-state level resources, at which point why are you engaging in terrorism, because you already are running a relatively prosperous sovereign country.
It also is relatively pointless for the purposes of terrorism, which is to achieve political aims by creating fear. There are much cheaper, easier ways to create essentially the same amount of fear.
Didn't a lot of warheads go missing during the collapse of the Soviet Union? Who the fuck has those and why haven't they been used?
Stolen soviet warheads? None that have been made public record. Missing nuclear materiel? Yes, though in the few cases I've read about it wasn't weapons grade material so much as low grade nuclear fuel disappearing from nuclear lighthouses in Siberia. There was one story i can't remember the details of where actual nuclear fuel (again not refined to weapons grade) being sold after the collapse but without the industrial refinement capabilities that can't be used for anything more than a dirty bomb.
Also majority of terrorists are dumbfuck radicals who resort to harming random civilian targets for no specific reason, usually with whatever tool they find right in front of them like a vehicle or gun because they're too stupid to actually coordinate anything more elaborate. The kind of groups more intelligent, resourceful, and capable than that (think the 911 plotters) usually get caught by the intelligence agencies before they can get too far.
Side note warheads have a shelf life, requiring expensive highly technical maintenance and upkeep. Russian warheads are known to expire faster than US ones too.
It's the tritium initiator that has to be replaced every decade, we now know the plutonium pit can last up to a century. Previously it was thought the cores needed replacement every 30 years or so.
Sourcing the necessary elements to replace the initiator is easier than getting a bomb or weapon grade plutonium (i.e. with most of the Pu-240 removed from it)
All will be solved with the glory of AM.
Zero, warheads or weapons grade material
>Didn't a lot of warheads go missing during the collapse of the Soviet Union?
There's like two people who have claimed that. One guy with connections in the black market who said it in some documentary but had zero proof, and one guy in a western Navy (don't even remember if American) who said that after meeting a submarine admiral post-collapse he offered to sell the vessel with the nukes included.
If any warhead went missing, it had to be a retarded accident like an airplane crashing and the bomb ending up in the ocean or driving itself into the dirt like it happened to the US.
Anon there’s like four or five actual missing broken arrow warheads scattered throughout…I think the East Coast?
>why haven't they been used
they simply no longer work. To get a nuke go off you need radioactive material. To get smaller nuke you need radioactive material that's more radioactive. Remember what radioactive means? It literally disintegrates into radio waves at it's own.
>To get smaller nuke you need radioactive material that's more radioactive.
Not true. You use a neutron-reflecting layer around the core and an inner core of some neutron producing isotope to boost the neutron flux through the fissile material. The fissile material is the same though, either U-233, U-235, or Pu-239. If you want more deets go to a library and read a book.
I just finished first season of the Jack Ryan TV show and I'm wondering, would that sort of "nuclear" attack be feasible?
For those unfamiliar, an isotope of cesium (I'm not sure which) ground up to a few pounds of very fine dust and released into the ventilation system of a hospital in an attempt to irradiate the entire building with a deadly dose
> On 23 November [1995], [Shamil] Basayev announced on the Russian NTV television channel, that four cases of radioactive material had been hidden around Moscow. Russian emergency teams roamed the city with Geiger counters, and located several canisters of Caesium, which had been stolen from the Budennovsk hospital by the Chechen militants. The incident has been called "the most important sub-state use of radiological material."
you can get cesium-137 from x ray machines which are in hospitals
a bunch of Hispanics fried themselves this way when they decided to scrap an xray machine and decided to make garden gnomeelry out of the glowing blue powder
A bunch of them also ate it and shit. Bunch of fucking retards.
>the Jack Ryan TV show
Is hogshit written by SoCal commies coasting on the name of a recurring character in Tom Clancy novels.
Maybe, but it's pretty fun imo
Yes, of course radiological terorrism is viable, but it's not exactly flashy enough.
Better to just do bombs.
The issue is not to pack critical mass of uranium inside a suitcase.
The issue is to produce it. First of all, you need a sheer volume of uranium ore to process it into something useful. And from how rare uranium within that ore is, you need to get a shitton of it, literally tons.
Then you need to dissolve it all with acid to get uranium out.
You can't do it at home and you can't do it in yard. You need basically an entire mining site.
Then of course all the waste you produce doesn't go unnoticed.
And after you got uranium ore, to enrich it you need to separate it. Usually it is done by binding it to fluorine and putting it in centrifuges, which is very expensive piece of equipment.
So you need shitton of money, shitton of work, shitton of digging, transport large volumes of rock, dissolve them.
Basically to produce a nuke you need a large factory and a large mining site and specific equipment that you can't produce on your own since it's even more difficult than the other processes I mentioned.
So it's impossible to do it in secrecy. And if people know that you are producing it, they will know what you do with it too.
Do they want to triumph or not!?
>And after you got uranium ore, to enrich it you need to separate it.
This is simply not true. U-235 is NOT the preferred fissile material for bombs specifically because it requires so much starting material and the Uranium is so difficult to enrich. Breeding Pu-239 and chemically separating it from the Uranium is much easier. Natural Uranium (99% 238, 0.7% 235) is still just barely enough to get a sustained reaction going with a decent moderator. Heavy water is expensive. Graphite is not. And operating such a breeder reactor at a low power output offers better control of the reaction, making a Chernobyl-type accident less likely. Something like the B Reactor at Hanford would be able to produce enough material for a bomb every few months, and that was literally just a giant block of graphite with fuel and water channels.
The tricky part is not over-exposing the fuel or you get an undesirable level of Pu-240 mixed in with the Pu-239. Pu-240 is less stable, so you end up severely limiting the upper yield of the fission device. If you want to go higher, you need a fusion stage, and that requires at least as much Plutonium, plus Lithium Hydride, and a casing made on U-238 and Lead with specific geometry to reflect the fission explosion toward the fusion stage.
But making the fission stage small is not hard at all. A simple 2-point detonation bomb can be under 2ft long and under 1ft diameter. Not very efficient, but it works.
checked and this
though you will likely give yourself radiation poisoning at some point, plus the plutonium needs to be sintered and machined
The actually tricky part is actually doing anything with your piles of pyrophoric and absurdly toxic metal.
What is a sealed box filled with nitrogen or argon?
Good luck casting a plutonium core in a glovebox.
The box doesn't have to fit on a desktop. It can be a room that is sealed and holds all the equipment needed for processing. You don't want to handle Pu when it comes out of the reactor with only gloves anyway. It's way too hot for anything other than machines to handle for several weeks/months depending on how long it was cooking,
Tiny nuke = tiny shitty tamper.
Size isn't the problem, stop using first gen designs as an argument, you can fit a 10-20 kt bomb in a 30 kg backpack since at least the early 70s. How implosion-type bombs can be miniaturized and simplified to hell is still one of the best kept secret on Earth, so people still believe you need big and extremely complex explosive lenses with krytrons to synchronise detonation like Fat Man. B61s can yield up to 340kt and the payload itself only weighs about 200 kg.
The biggest issue is sourcing the device. Terrorists are more likely to make a dirty bomb or fit a full-sized warhead in a truck than stumble upon a mini-nuke ready to be transported on their back.
>How implosion-type bombs can be miniaturized and simplified to hell is still one of the best kept secret on Earth
It's really not. You center your hollow core inside a cylindrical casing, set a pair of circular plates (smaller than the casing diameter but not by much) a short distance away from the core, and fill the casing completely with your plasticized explosive of choice (C4, PBX, etc.). When the explosive material is detonated at both ends the blast will travel inwards, go around the circular plates, and become toroidal in doing so. These expanding toroidal blast waves will converge on the core and crush it into the necessary density. For best results you will need a not quite spherical core and you will need to work out the diameter and spacing on the plates. This is the design for the first 2-point detonation bomb. Other, more efficient s-point designs have been made since then, and single-point detonation designs are even in production today.
The reason that no private nuclear arsenals exist is because the kind of people who want to have nukes tend to fuck goats, and the kind of people with the skills to make breeder reactors and work out the geometry of nuclear bomb components spend years in university learning calculus, physics, and coding to get a high paying job. Very little overlap.
Nukes don't exist, retard.
Stop watching RED 2
Take a look at this
The guy extracts U-238 from uranium ore.
Even this takes a lot of work, but if you were to use U-238 a gun type bomb, you would not get a nuclear detonation since it doesn't go supercritical.
You need to extract U-235 from the U-238 using a large amount of centrifuges.
It's A LOT of energy extensive, complicated and expensive work, only a few countries are proficient at it.
For plutonium breeding you need a nuclear reactor either way.
Better question is why no one has blown up a normal bomb surrounded by radioactive waste to dirty bomb a city. Seems like it would be much easier to pull off with how corrupt the Asian and Middle Eastern nuclear powers are.
You overestimate the corruption in this sector. Nuclear materials are pretty heavily regulated and tracked by international organizations and intelligence agencies around the globe.
There are only very few instances of radioactive material going missing. Sure both the US and the SU lost a nuclear weapon here and there but they rest peacefully at the bottom of oceans and lakes...
https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html
The fact that incidents like nuclear terrorism with dirty bombs doesn't happen would be empirical proof alone that the system of international observation works.
>system of international observation works.
reminds me of how after the vatnik union imploded observers went to work in russia an immediately sumbled across a unguarded nook launch site with its door open. Nobody home as the staff had not been payed so they fucked off and went home not giving a fuck
Nooks have absolutely gone into the wild, specially after the implosion of the vatnik union. It is just either the arming codes were not included or they were rotten soviet duds used for scamming the buyer. The soviet shit was not very good to begin with even when still factory fresh. For obvious reasons both sides decided to keep hush hush about the incidents while the more responsible side tried to quietly recover the defunct nooks in the wild. Some of these black market ones were also acquired by the likes of iran, china and best korea. Looking for pointers on how to improve their versions or just straight copy it. For norks in particular there was even a big scandal when they got caught one time in kamchatkas sub docks
For anyone wondering if that pic is a nuke, it isn't. It's a display of a guidance system.
> Nooks have absolutely gone into the wild
I judge by evidence, not conjecture.
>when you (200 word essay about muh boog)
When will you gays stop posting these unfunny, reddit-tier fed memes?
It's a fucking joke, get a grip.
Most realistically, a private nuclear weapon could be created by a rich person and the right defense/research/front corporations
nukes aren't real
maybe the real weapon was the fear suitcase nukes generated along the way
Wow that's such a funny meme hahahaha
its actually part of the reason why you havent seen any car capable fusion reactor engines let out of classified labs. because they are easy to turn into boom booms you just crank the dial up on the feeback loop control system into a positive feedback loop
>car capable fusion reactor engines
Don't exist.
keep telling yourself that
I love that you schizo's, who aim shit like this, are the next mi ute talking about how the government can't do anything right. And are all incompetent.
i am schizo but i also have a degree in electrical engineering as well as particle physics and ive spent the last ten years working on computational complexity and the math behind making a working prototype.
so please before you spout off any bullshit publish a proof that a small fusion nuclear reaction engine is impossible mathematically before you go on being the gay moron you are
You're a grad student with no published papers that isn't liked by his professor coping on the internet about how experienced and professional you are.
and you have none of those educational backgrounds yet still claim to know more about nuclear physics than me
Turns out making nuclear weapons isn't that easy.
there's got to be at least one rusting away in a half collapsed concrete bunker in the urals or something. Look at all those RTGs and other shit the rooskies left lying around.
Probably not, because after the fall of the Soviet Union, the US was worried about such an scenario. So they sent a fuckton of money and equipment and even people to install systems of security clearance at nuclear weapon facilities or container for nuclear materials:
> "... another important contribution was seen when the US sent storage containers to Russia to store fissionable material under Russian control. The US provided "10,000 fissile material storage containers by the end of 1995 and a total of nearly 33,000 containers by early 1997".[12] These containers aided in Russia's ability to store nuclear material from dismantled warheads. Another contribution from the US to Russia was "75 million dollars to help Russia build a new fissile material storage facility at Chelyabinsk for plutonium "pits" from dismantled warheads".[12] The Nuclear Threat Reduction program was not just used to remove everything fissionable from Russia; it also included ideas for safe storage and transportation of fissionable material in Russia built up during the Cold War."
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> "260 tons of fissile material received security upgrades
60 nuclear warhead storage sites received security upgrades
35 percent of Russian chemical weapons received security upgrades
49 former biological weapons facilities were converted to joint U.S.–Russian research under what were known as the Biological Threat Reduction Integrating Contracts
4 biological weapons sites received security improvements"
pretty fascinating read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunn%E2%80%93Lugar_Cooperative_Threat_Reduction