[WikiEN-l] Another Media and Wikipedia blackout on NYT reporter in Afghanistan

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/9/10 George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:32 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/9/9  <wjhonson at aol.com>:
>>> It's a bit of a mistaken idea that the issue with H bombs is their
>>> "plans".
>>> The method of making an H bomb is widely known.
>>> The problem is not the blueprints.  It's creating the necessary
>>> equipment in order to enrich the uranium in the first place.  Not a
>>> cheap thing to do.  Everyone however knows *how* to do it.
>>
>> No thats the A-bomb (and even then explosive lenses are
>> problematical). H-Bomb plane still contain significant elements of
>> speculation. The various failed attempts to construct them suggest
>> it's not that easy.
>
> This is wishful thinking, Geni.
>
> Making really small H-bombs (100 kg) is slightly tricky - but medium
> sized ones (1 ton) is not.
>
> And the explosive lenses get easier the more you know about how to
> make them.  The 1945 vintage ones we show for [[Fat Man]] are far
> harder to design and make than the ones used just 10 years later for a
> Brok / [[Mark 12 nuclear bomb]].

You have completely missed Geni's point. Fat Man was an A-bomb, not an
H-bomb. Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design