The Fool wrote: > > http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001390014-2001395995,00.html > > Nuclear experts say the design suggests that bin Laden may be working on > a fission device, similar to Fat Man, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. > However, they emphasised that it was extremely difficult to build a > viable warhead. > While the terrorists may not yet have the capability to build such > weapons, their hopes of doing so are clear. One set of notes, written on > headed notepaper from the Hotel Grand in Peshawar and dated April 26, > 1998, says: ?Naturally the explosive liquid has a very high mechanical > energy which is translated into destructive force. But it can be tamed, > controlled and can be used as a useful propulsive fuel if certain methods > are applied to it. A supersonic moving missile has a shock wave. That > shock wave can be used to contain an external combustion behind the > missile . . .?
So he can't build a missile.. so what? All that results in is more proof of what a scam the missile defense shield scare is. Seriously though.. how hard IS it to build a device capable of an explosive force larger than the explosion needed to compress the radioactive mass to density? IIRC, its not all /that/ hard, given a good machine shop. -j- -- http://www.coincoalition.org/pennies.htm
