<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 08/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eugen Leitl</b> <<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:29:55PM -0400, Keith Henson wrote:<br><br>> More like deep inside in the neutron flux. I recently wrote about making<br>> super high grade Pu 239 by pumping a depleted uranium solution through a
<br>> reactor core and sorting out the plutonium (chemically) before it picks up<br>> another neutron. To my surprise no calls from 3 letter agencies.<br><br>It takes a great deal more than suggesting something so well-known
<br>(and which takes a nuclear reactor) to get a call from a TLA.<br><br>Try posting a detailed blueprint for a nuclear weapon in an arsenal,<br>or at least something when has been tested. I listen very closely to<br>when weapon designers talk, and it is very obvious that they're damn
<br>careful about what they say and what they don't say.<br></blockquote></div><br>Surely all a terrorist with access to fissionable material would need is 1940's technology to be a real threat. Fancy modern delivery systems would be icing on the cake.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou