Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:04:40 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, cjclark@alum.mit.edu, "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <15301.53544.902022.451805@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <1002817787.3bc5c8fbddbfd@webmail.neomedia.it> References: <1002817787.3bc5c8fbddbfd@webmail.neomedia.it>
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Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> types: > > gives sufficient information to calculate the neutron numbers, > > and therefore the critical mass, for any radioactive material > > that is capable of fission. > > Obscurantism is NO solution. Talebans anyone? > > "Dangerous" technologies, that is, the precise details of how to _work_ eg > plutonium to make a bomb out of it, *should* be kept secret. Alas, this is > not always possible, but they should. All the technological information required to build an atomic bomb were publicly available back in the '70s. A Princeton student did a research paper for Dr. Gerard K. O'Neil - better known as a designer and proponent of O'Neil colonies - at that time. The student wrote a book entitled "The Mushroom Kid", or something like that. Probably out of print. > > The way we control such things is to control the availability > > of the critical raw materials very, very carefully. One of > > the reasons we have been so careful to court Pakistan and > > Uzbekistan must be that they are Afghanistan's neighbors, and > > are both members of "the nuclear club". The process for creating the critical raw materials is also publicly available. Staging a raid on a nuclear plant to obtain them is either less expensive - if you build a proper lab - or less dangerous - if you don't build a proper lab. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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