[ExI] chinese colonization of africa etc

[Keith Henson]

 ally, filtering and distilling water doesn't have to be expensive.
> Boiling it, and collecting the vapor, will do.  A setup to do that,
> even at sale, doesn't require any obviously expensive components.
> One could even make that a requirement of the design: since any
> expensive component will get stolen, design a system to accomplish
> this task that doesn't have any expensive components.  Almost any
> component with a brand name or that is mainly known by its chemical
> name is right out.On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>SNIP

> Speaking of cheap stuff, I wonder how low-cost suitcase nuke
> manufacture might be gotten.

I gave considerable thought to this some years ago when I was in jail.
The problems are getting Pu 239 or U 235 and then getting it to go
boom.  U-235 is a problem of sorting it out.  That's what they were
doing in Iran.  Pu-239 can be made by exposing depleted U to neutrons
and sorting out the plutonium chemically.

A power reactor is a fine neutron source.  But you do need to subvert the staff.

details here, //archive.today/20130415065858/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/10/30/18253/301
Long version here, https://htyp.org/Bad_Days
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