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Old 03-21-2004, 05:33 PM  
Agent White
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If they have them, why haven't they used them?

It's like me saying I have some top grade hardcore content that will make me rich but I'm not gonna sell it yet, I think I'll stick with eating cup-a-soup for a few years instead.


I may be an amateur when it comes to subjects such as nuclear fission, but if memory serves correct, a nuclear fission reaction requires that the nuclear material to be detonated (uranium 238?) needs to be imploded on all sides at once. Essentially, a fission nuclear bomb is spherical in shape, explosives on the outside, nuclear fuel on the inside. The size of sphere you could fit inside a standard briefcase would be so small that no explosive on the planet would be powerful enough to start the reaction.

Again, maybe someone is confused as to what a dirty bomb is. A dirty bomb doesn't really kill people, it just makes a large area uninhabitable. Kind of like when I've had too much Nepalese food the day before.
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