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

[geni]

2009/9/10 Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>:
> To tie this to the topic. We should not publish up-to-date and accurate
> information on how to create great harm whether it is about A-bombs or
> reporters held captive by the Taliban, and we don't, our A-bomb plans
> will produce a bomb that will barely go off, witness the North Korea
> fizzles.

North Korean was a plutonium based implosion design and since we don't
have much info on explosive lenses not really relevant.

Now our information can't really be said to be up to date since the
weapon type we have the most info about hasn't existed since 1991 (as
far as is known).

But:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-type_fission_weapon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_hexafluoride
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_enrichment

Or for a rather messy method:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calutron

(actually you could in theory at least use that method to build a
plutonium based gun type weapon but there would seem to be little
point and no one has actually done it).

> That is because we generally do what it takes to avoid doing harm. And
> that is a good thing. It is simply wrong to do dumb harmful stuff.
>
> Fred

The benefit of the above it is makes it possible to form a reasonable
assessment of politicians claims about say Iran's nuclear abilities.



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geni