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shuize
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| I have zero factual basis to make this claim, but I've always sort of suspected Japan has the ability to assemble a nuclear weapon in about half an hour -- something like half the completed weapon in room A and the other half in room B right next door. |
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luckyloser700
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| shuize wrote: |
| I have zero factual basis to make this claim, but I've always sort of suspected Japan has the ability to assemble a nuclear weapon in about half an hour -- something like half the completed weapon in room A and the other half in room B right next door. |
You're probably right. There are likely people in third world countries with the knowledge to put together a simple atom bomb even if they don't have the resources to build one. Japan probably has the resources, but why bother? I'm pretty sure that issue of becoming a nuclear power has less to do with the ability to make the bomb than with the ability to start up mass production of bombs. It also has to do with fission bombs (uranium bombs) vs. fusion bombs (hydrogen bombs). Of course, the fusion bomb's fusion reaction is triggered by a small fission bomb explosion, but while it's relatively easy to produce the fission chain reaction, the fusion reaction is extraordinarily difficult to achieve. US and Russian ICBM's carry hydrogen bombs. They are capable of releasing an enormous amount of energy that has never been produced by a fission bomb.
If anyone truly believed that N. Korea had carried out a successful fusion bomb detonation, there'd be a lot more panic about it. |
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