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http://web.archive.org/web/20240512204543/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design

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This article is a surprisingly entertaining read for a few reasons:

  • one or more people who wrote it clearly have very strong opinions about how nuclear weapons should be built
  • the article contains a surprising amount of detail, including stuff that seems like it'd be classified or at least censored
  • due to both of the above, there's a ton of [citation needed] that I doubt will ever be resolved
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Most of the information is vague enough that you can't do anything with it. I studied how nukes work for a high school presentation about the Demon Core a couple years ago, and it definitely seems weird to be allowed to know these things, but realistically speaking how is your average joe going to obtain the industrial capability to do anything with this knowledge, especially without killing themselves first.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm a lot more concerned about nuclear-capable private billionaires, when it comes to this knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Well he had a sad ending

[–] Montagge 1 points 5 months ago

That's what the USA is