> Ed Gerck wrote: > > As to the counter-example you ask, the general public profits by > > lack of disclosure of the algorithm that allows nuclear bombs > > to be made with 1 pound of enriched uranium. We have less > > nuclear powers. > I'd like one of the real physicists on the list to weigh in on this, but a 1 lb. enriched uranium nuclear bomb sounds unrealistic to me. Last I knew, it was more like 25-50 pounds of enriched uranium. Now, a plutonium bomb can supposedly be made with 10 pounds of plutonium, which is around the size and shape of a goose egg. [Once I'd heard that, I knew that suitcases nukes would someday be made, just because they could be made.] =============================================== Mark Leighton Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomson Consumer Electronics Indianapolis IN "Their walls are built of cannon balls, Their motto is `Don't tread on me`"
