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Old Oct 6th, 2003, 02:12 PM       
Actually, there is a kind of uranium nuke that shoots a uranium slug into a mass rather than uniformly compressing it. But that's not important.

I guess I wasn't ambiguous enough; I meant to be. I know a person couldn't do it himself, especially with that kind of setup, and the dude was a little off in his thinking. But the page didn't say how hard you had to hit it - correct me if I'm wrong, but if you have enough force (more than a human could muster on his own) and large enough chunks of U-235 (say, a lot more than critical mass so it's okay if some of it isn't adequately compressed), won't smashing them together be enough to start a chain reaction, even accounting for smearing?

Anyway, I know what you're talking about. My question now is, if separating the isotopes is not so difficult, and all that's required is the materials and uniform explosive force (I can't imagine everyone's sixty years behind the US in conventional explosive technology, and I'd think you could just cover it with C4 and space out a bunch of fuses on the surface), why is it such an issue whether a country "has nuclear technology" or not? What's the extra step that I'm missing that makes it so difficult?
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