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So You Want to Build a Fission Bomb

LostCosmonaut posted a topic in Dr. Strangelove's Nuclear Palace

So You Want to Build a Fission Bomb? There are many reasons why one may want to build a fission bomb. Killing communists, for example, or sending a spacecraft to one of the outer planets. Building a bomb is not easy, but it can be done (see also Project, Manhattan). Even with publicly available information. Obviously, I’m not going to detail every little bit of our hypothetical bomb down to the last millimeter of wiring. First, I don’t know all that. If I did know it, posting it here might earn me a very long vacation to ADX Florence. The stuff here is just some equations and such to give
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Oklo Reactors

LostCosmonaut posted a topic in Dr. Strangelove's Nuclear Palace

An interesting article about the natural fission reactors in Oklo, Gabon; http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-nuclear-reactor/

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