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All I know is what I read in Tom Clancy's Sum of All Fears, which has a hell of a lot of detail about building a nuclear bomb. The thing that struck me was all
by alan_cx 13y ago
All I know is what I read in Tom Clancy's Sum of All Fears, which has a hell of a lot of detail about building a nuclear bomb. The thing that struck me was all the very high precision machining required, and how hard that was to achieve.
As you suggest, design principle, easy, actually engineering it is the tricky bit.
- wtracy 13y agoPlutonium is harder to machine that other metals, as it's density tends to be non-uniform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium#Allotropes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium#Allotropes You go along milling a hard spot, then hit a soft spot and--oops! You took off too much.