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Question is, who is going to claim the salvage first?

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The thing about nukes is that they require a fair bit of technical and industrial capacity to prepare and maintain
oddly enough, all you have to do is spend a lot of time researching, and putting the info you do find together. Tom Clancy actually intentionally fudged some details in his book Sum of All fears.

University of Chicago physics majors Justin Kasper and Fred Niell, as part of a scavenger hunt that had as one of its items "a breeder reactor built in a shed," successfully built a similar nuclear reactor that produced trace amounts of plutonium.


EDIT: The movie The Manhattan Project is pretty close other than at the time it would be very hard for the kid to figure out the lens placement without someone noticing and getting the plutonium.
 
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oddly enough, all you have to do is spend a lot of time researching, and putting the info you do find together. Tom Clancy actually intentionally fudged some details in his book Sum of All fears.

University of Chicago physics majors Justin Kasper and Fred Niell, as part of a scavenger hunt that had as one of its items "a breeder reactor built in a shed," successfully built a similar nuclear reactor that produced trace amounts of plutonium.


EDIT: The movie The Manhattan Project is pretty close other than at the time it would be very hard for the kid to figure out the lens placement without someone noticing and getting the plutonium.
It is not the info it is the preparation of enough uranium of the right kind that is the big hurdle.
 




The thing about nukes is that they require a fair bit of technical and industrial capacity to prepare and maintain
Yet another reason why it's not good for everyone and their sibling to have them. Even if you never fire them in anger, Very Bad Things can happen if you do not know what you are doing when making them or maintaining them. Not as bad as a detonation, but radiation exposure does not sound fun.
 



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