HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

[Steve Schear]

At 11:20 PM 11/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>\Divide the U-235 into two five pound masses.  Beat it evenly into the
>inside of one of your salad bowls.  U-235 is malleable like gold so you
>should have no problem shaping it.  Do the same with the other U-235 mass
>and shape it into the other salad bowl.

My recollection is that all Uranium metal isotopes are much harder and 
denser than steel.  That's why depleted uranium
238 its used for armor piercing ammunition.

steve