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Is it okay to ban a book which contains the written and complete text to assemble an atomic bomb?
by frozenport 11y ago
Is it okay to ban a book which contains the written and complete text to assemble an atomic bomb?
- paulddraper 11y agoOkay? I'm not sure. Effective? Definitely not. If someone wants to share information they have, they will find a way to share it.
- GunboatDiplomat 11y agoNo, it is not ok to ban that.
- elorant 11y agoWhy? I can’t build an atomic bomb since I don’t have the resources and the guy who has the resources probably doesn’t need a manual in the first place.
- frozenport 11y agoActually building a functional nuclear weapon is hard and such a manual has been offered for sale for millions of dollars to various despotic regimes. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan Oddly this reminds me of all the people that think making an SO clone is easy, when the css alone would take days to type out.
- detaro 11y agoWhile it is possible to design a bomb without access to knowledge the atomic powers keep secret[1], if you get it wrong it's a really costly mistake to make, both in materials and time. Documentation for a tested design seems very valuable. [1] the US military had a pair of physics PhDs try to design a bomb sometime in the 60s, and apparently they succeeded, but that is only one data point. Not sure if there is any public knowledge about other states' nuke programs.