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Originally Posted by mindovermatter
a nuke is not *technically* hard to make...
at a certain critical mass, uranium^235 will explode. All you gotta do is refine less pure uranium^238 to get there. Refining it is basically like using a washing-machine sized centrifuge. Everything else is just details. That's why every dictator and his son wants to do it.
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That's great. That's not easy to do though. A washing machine size centrifuge? More like thousands of the things. Those details? Turns out they're extremely important. Not to mention, most fission devices use plutonium, not uranium. Only early gun type bombs did.