On 5/28/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Or there is infomation of a more technical type: [[Gun-type fission weapon]]
Potential harm is a rather subjective thing, too. There's all manner of other concepts that could fall under this.
I said this on-wiki, but I'll say it here now as well:
That particular article is harmless. The Nuclear Weapons FAQ (see http://www.nuclearweaponsarchive.org and scroll 2/3 of the way down) has design engineering how-to information. Essentially none of that is here on Wikipedia. What's here is harmless, for all the nuclear weapons articles. None of the mathematics, engineering analysis techniques, etc which are necessary to actually design or build anything nuclear or thermonuclear are present on Wikipedia.
I've worked on this topic for over 15 years; it's subject to bouts of widespread paranoia among those who don't understand what info really is sensitive (the *really* sensitive stuff isn't even in the FAQ, though we don't have any illusions as to whether leaving it out is really keeping anything from North Korea or Iran...). I would be happy to talk to anyone who has concerns about this off-list.