How to Build a Nuke, Who Would Want to? Part 2
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Continued from “How to Build a Nuke, Who Would Want to? Part 1“
The Build
The gun assembly device is pretty basic, if you shoot a piece of HEU at another piece, you would take out Toledo.
The process is a little like getting a ball of HEU, removing the core as you would an apples, bolting the pitted end to the muzzle of an artillery gun, then firing the core back into its center.
To do this, your metallurgist needs to cast the enriched uranium into the requisite shapes. Uranium melts at around 2,069 degrees Fahrenheit (that’s 1,132 Centigrade for terrorists still clinging to the metric), so don’t skimp on a good furnace—you can find one used on eBay for around $50,000.
Once you’ve fired up the furnace and softened your HEU into workable goo, shoot it over to the lathe for shaping (but don’t spill any on the carpet).
If you’ve never used a lathe, any high school machine shop teacher can show you the ropes, although he’s likely to ask questions about what you’re building. If one of your terrorist friends can work a Jedi mind trick, now’s the time.
While you mold your subcritical masses, send somebody out to cop the surplus artillery gun. Recoilless army rifles are widely available in the U.S., but they usually come disassembled, so plan on some wrenching. If you’re more manager than mechanic, any hobbyist can refurbish a recoilless rifle for just a few grand.
Get your electrical team off the XBOX and have them craft some circuitry for all your timing, arming, and detonating needs. Ideally, this thing triggers remotely, as anything within a half-mile of the blast will be instantly vaporized, with complete and utter destruction reaching a mile outside its hypocenter. Massive fires and radioactive fallout will claim everything within five miles, so if your target’s Times Square, get across the bridge to Jersey.
Of course, if you’re the suicidal terrorist type, like all 19 of the 9/11 hijackers’, setting this thing off is about as easy as pulling the trigger on your homemade rig. If you can fire an artillery round and pish paw sublimation, you can decimate a beloved world city.
And there you have it, your very own nuke. It’s about nine feet long—bigger than a breadbox, but the perfect size to ride coach in a white panel van—so feel free to take it on the road. Preferably someplace far away from civilization, where you can get down to vaporizing yourself, your terrorist buds, and all your worst-laid plans.
The Point
If any of this sounds alarmingly easy, you’re right—and it’s only one scenario where proliferation bites the world in its badonkadonk.
But like any avoidable event—from 9/11 to the Gulf oil spill—an ounce of prevention will buy a ton of cure.
The first step? Stop believing nuclear weapons are too big of an issue to tackle.
While nine nations have nukes, 184 countries signed onto the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have refused to develop the bomb. If you’re feeling like nukes are an issue beyond your means, remember that the vast majority of the world has already stood up to the weapon of most destruction.
That doesn’t mean the work’s done. Three countries—Israel, India and Pakistan—have refused to sign the NPT and continue to expand their nuclear arsenals. If we ever hope to see an end to nukes, we have to get these naysayers involved. To take part in some serious Israeli-IndoPak arm-twisting, sign up for Global Zero.
If you don’t want to see a gun assembler in your neighborhood, locking down nuclear materials is a must. The lands of the former Soviet Union may be a little loosey-goosey, but so are civilian stockpiles across the rest of the nuclear-powered planet.
Pressure Missouri Senator Kit Bond to drop his hold on the Markey-Upton bill, a measure that promotes the use of HEU’s more congenial cousin, low-enriched uranium (LEU).
According to Dr. Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Markey-Upton bill, otherwise known as the yes dear you get sent in last night did not mention what is or where “would restore controls over HEU exports over time and provide funding for the U.S. to develop LEU-based methods for medical isotopes.”
LEU grants its users all the basic benefits of HEU, but serves zero purpose for terrorists looking to build a bomb. Senator Bond is preventing Markey-Upton from advancing in the Senate at a time when the threat of nuclear terrorism has never been greater. Let him know that whatever reason he has for delaying the bill, it’s nowhere near as important as protecting the country from a homemade nuke.
There have been recent strides in running down the world’s nuclear material, but we’re not safe until every kilogram’s secure. This is the world’s most dangerous weapon—it shouldn’t feel like loose couch cushion change. Professor Joseph Cirincione of Georgetown University makes it plain: “We have never lost an ounce of gold from Fort Knox. We shouldn’t lose an ounce of highly enriched uranium.” Check out TakePart’s action page and stay up on what’s going down with nukes.
Be a hero, work for zero! Now that you have a plan to build the bomb, work for a solution to end the threat of nuclear weapons permanently! Remember, there is no winner in a nuclear war!
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My Take: The only people who want to build a bomb these days are the terrorists. If somebody does set off a bomb, you can’t hire Wellington FL injury attorneys to get compensated for your injuries. This is not a situation where did that hurt because of the negligence of somebody else. Well, maybe it is, because they were wrong in placing the bomb anyway.
I still don’t think you can hire Lake Worth FL personal injury attorneys to get compensation. I, myself, would rather be in one of the many villas in Spain instead of wherever the bomb goes off. Of course, anybody would want to be where the bomb is not.
One thing terrorists do not want to see is patriotism. That means I will probably fly my American and Texas flags anywhere I can just to piss off the terrorists! Even if I’m on a piece of Costa del Sol real estate and I was from the South I would fly my Confederate flags along with the American flags. In other words, the terrorists can kiss my butt!
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