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Originally Posted by tw
A major amount of plutonium has gone unaccounted for. Yes many pounds. Stuff lost in dust, cleaning, processing, etc. Literally ounces scattered everywhere. But even many pounds is not enough to make one bomb.
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13.6 pounds was sufficient in 1945. Two bombs designed without the benefit of any existing weapons technology, without even electronic computers (let alone supercomputers). Yield: 21kt.