re: #148 Kenneth

Machining uranium is not a simple matter. The stuff is soft, crumbly and ignites in air. But you are correct, the design is out there. The shotgun warhead is straight forward, but low yield. Implosion devices are higher yield but require precision machining.

And with the CNC machines that you can buy anywhere, cheaply, machining to those tolerances is now simple. It’s just not as hard as it used to be sadly. Forty years from now I expect every country in the world will have nukes. Even some private companies.