[ExI] chinese colonization of africa etc

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

The latter link took a couple of tries to work.  The former needs
"http;" prepended, but works once that's done.

The flash powder trick in your story, still might not be fast enough -
though a smaller amount and some very precisely measured fiber optics
might pull it off these days.