HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

[Tim May]

On Friday, November 16, 2001, at 09:08 PM, Steve Schear wrote:

> 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.
>

Gold is malleable AND is denser than steel.

Uranium is NOT malleable AND is denser than steel.

The main reason for using DU in armor-piercing shells is the sheer 
density.

The bomb instructions Joe provided are as accurate as most recipes in 
"The Anarchist Cookbook."

(A book my local Sheriff's Department banned in 1970.)




--Tim May, Corralitos, California
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