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There's a book from the 70s, _The Curve of Binding Energy_, by John McPhee, which is about how easy it was at that time to acquire weapons-grade materials and d
by randallsquared 13y ago
There's a book from the 70s, _The Curve of Binding Energy_, by John McPhee, which is about how easy it was at that time to acquire weapons-grade materials and design and build a device. I found it pretty interesting.
Of course, I read it in the 1980s, and here we are in the 2010s, and there's never been a private nuclear explosion of any kind, nor apparently any nuclear blackmail. That says something about either difficulty, or about how effective (covert?) non-proliferation efforts have been, or about how rare is the desire to use a nuclear weapon. Not sure which.