The concern is not rust, but nuclear decay.
"Will this bomb work with this amount of it's material gone, and what is the
new yield. Take into account that it doesn't decay evenly, the effect of
the benign material left in the core and there are multiple materials in and
around the core (i.e. tritium to increase the yield, etc.)"
Here, let me get out my pocket calculator...
William
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David L Nicol
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 1998 10:21 AM
> To: Jukka Tapani Santala; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Mersenne: Thoughts
>
>
> Jukka Tapani Santala wrote:
> > The fastest unclassified machine at the moment is
> ...
> > used for modeling nuclear
> > processes, "to maintain USA's nuclear stockpiles without the need of
> > further nuclear tests".
>
> Am I the only one to whom this makes no sense?
>
> If some of the stickpiled nuclear weapons
> are going to, umm, spoil, how is a simulation going to tell which ones
> the rust decided to attack? I mean, if I have a truckload of oranges
> no computer simulation is going to be able to tell me which ones
> are going to get moldy, no matter how vividly it displays the rot
> processes.
>
> Of course I'm happy they found a justification for building a new
> supercomputer, but I wonder how just vivid "quake" can get.
>
>
>
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