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Making nukes out of small amounts of plutonium is indeed hard to do but making a small explosion using a large amount of plutonium is much easier than making a
by Symmetry 11y ago
Making nukes out of small amounts of plutonium is indeed hard to do but making a small explosion using a large amount of plutonium is much easier than making a large explosion from a large amount of plutonium.
- mikeash 11y agoExactly. If NK's tests are low-yield because they're testing miniaturized devices intended to produce a low yield, that's scary. But it's far more likely that they're trying to make a bigger bang and it's just not working right.