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Originally Posted by marichiko
OK, I have a question. When it comes to weapons of mass destruction, what is the critical limiting factor? Is it delivery? Is it having a facility where one can manufacture the requisite plutonium? Could one make plutonium in one's own garage? Just curious. Can anyone enlighten me?  |
We (the US) made some of our first batch in a Squash Court at the University of Chicago. It's not easy by any stretch of the imagination, but it's fairly do-able. The tricky stuff in nuclear material production is the separation of U235 from a mix of U235 and U238.