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

[geni]

2009/9/10 George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>:
> This is wishful thinking, Geni.
>
> Making really small H-bombs (100 kg) is slightly tricky - but medium
> sized ones (1 ton) is not.


Uk's first attempt failed and India's probably did. I think that
qualifies as tricky.


> 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]].
>
> Which are easier to design, but bigger and therefore somewhat harder
> to actually make, than the ones from five years after that in the
> [[B-61 nuclear bomb]], which are conceptually quite simple (and not
> that computationally hard).  Which are harder to make, if a lot easier
> to calculate, than the [[W88]].
>
> There are no WP:RS compatible sources one can cite for those
> developments and details, and WP:NOT a bomb manual, but thinking that
> they're that difficult just because they're not talked about widely is
> wishful thinking.

North Korean attempt failed which suggests that unless you have the
plans to hand explosive lenses take work to get right.

-- 
geni