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At a minimum:
- Fissile material to provide the energy
- Conventional explosives to rapidly assemble (about 1ms to 10ms) the fissile material from subcritical to supercritical form
- A tamper made of dense metal to contain the reaction for about 1µs to get good yield
- neutron sources to start the fission at optimal supercriticality
To make a practical bomb additional materials and systems would be required.
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Should nuclear weapons be banned?
Considering the fact that any competent Physics Grad student using publicly available data could design a workable fission bomb (getting the materials to build it is another issue) having a yield comparable to the ones detonated in WW2; it is impossible to ban nuclear weapons. If a country wanted them it will take them roughly 4 years to build the nuclear materials processing infrastructure to make the needed materials.
Who isn't allowed to have nuclear weapons?
Private individuals. This is not due to "legal prohibition" but to practical inability to obtain the materials, which requires the efforts of many many people working to this purpose. Any country that actually wants them can and will have them, it only take 3 to 5 years to build the infrastructure needed to make the materials required for them once the decision is made to acquire nuclear weapons.
Is nuclear weapons evil?
NO! Nuclear weapons don't make and detonate themselves
How do you dispose of aging nuclear weapons?
They are taken to a plant that manufactures nuclear weapons (in the U.S. the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas) where they are carefully dismantled and those parts whose materials can be reused to make new nuclear weapons are recycled. The chemical explosives are usually burned to safely dispose of them.
How did the Russians figure out how to make nuclear weapons before they figured out agriculture?
Do the Russians have nuclear weapons?
What is the name of people who make nuclear weapons?
There is no specific name for people who create nuclear weapons.
Can you make nuclear weapons with petroleum?
No.
What was the purpose of the NPT?
make sure nuclear weapons did not proliferate to nations w/o nuclear weapons
What problems does the nuclear family faced with?
The new country that want to make nuclear weapons. And how to consult with they own weapons
Is it okay to make homemade nuclear weapons?
NO.
Why does US make nuclear weapons?
The US no longer makes nuclear weapons, it only refurbishes existing ones that are wearing out.
What did mayans make their weapons out of?
materials
