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Originally Posted by azguy
"Each suitcase weighed between 50 and 80 kilograms (approximately 110 to 176 pounds) and contained enough fissionable plutonium and uranium to produce an explosive yield in excess of two kilotons," wrote Williams. "One suitcase bore the serial number 9999 and the Russian manufacturing date of 1988. The design of the weapons, Tenet told the president, is simple. The plutonium and uranium are kept in separate compartments that are linked to a triggering mechanism that can be activated by a clock or a call from the cell phone."
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Does anyone else want to explain the physics of fission bombs? I can assure you that you dont need both plutonium and uranium unless this were an H-bomb which requires a small fission explosion to trigger the fusion reaction. But a 2 kiloton yeild is impossibly low with an H-bomb