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Oppenheimer Movie Review
dietert1:
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There are good reasons terrorists have not managed to get hold of these weapons. It is mostly the material but there is also a lot of detail. Fuchs for example gave the Russians a good start by supplying them with dimensioned drawings, and sure enough their first tested design was a copy.
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You may feel uncomfortable with this, but shouldn't we consider people who used nuclear weapons on towns with hundreds of thousands of people terrorists? Think about it.
Regards, Dieter
peter-h:
As was correctly pointed out in the film, the same number was killed daily with conventional bombing, and brought Japan no nearer to surrender.
The physical effects were also not much different.
DonKu:
Yes, that's it.
coppice:
--- Quote from: peter-h on August 01, 2023, 04:16:02 pm ---There are good reasons terrorists have not managed to get hold of these weapons. It is mostly the material but there is also a lot of detail. Fuchs for example gave the Russians a good start by supplying them with dimensioned drawings, and sure enough their first tested design was a copy.
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There is one single reason - limited funds. There are a lot of people who could put together a fairly modern weapon, without massive effort. Much simpler techniques now exist than the approaches used in WW2. They were actually developed quite rapidly after the first explosions. Producing suitable material is the stumbling block. You need a large scale industrial activity to produce that. This is why people were so concerned when the USSR crumbled. So much fissile material was poorly managed, there was a real concern that some might get into bad hands, bypassing that industrial scale requirement, and there would have been no stopping them.
David Hess:
--- Quote from: dietert1 on August 02, 2023, 08:05:35 am ---You may feel uncomfortable with this, but shouldn't we consider people who used nuclear weapons on towns with hundreds of thousands of people terrorists? Think about it.
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Luckily for those people, they were on the side which won the war.
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