Nuclear Arsenal?

Question

Okay. I've made the bomb's shell out of an old 69' ford hood, fashioned a trigger mechanism from a stop watch and a clock radio. I've got enough plutonium for a 7 mile radius but I'm looking for 10. and I've managed to make it tick with all those complicated innards.

any ideas on where I can find some plutonium?

by the way, I live in the New York tri-county area.

Answer 1

"any ideas on where I can find some plutonium?"
Well, to tell the truth, no, I have no idea, but obviously you know;
"I've got enough plutonium for a 7 mile radius but I'm looking for 10"
Even if your original source has dried up, you still have better connections than anyone here.
Anyway, isn't 154 square miles enough? (7 miles radius squared times Pi) actually that sounds a bit big for a fusion device, but what do I know.

This reminds me of an article I once read in a science fiction magazine, the premise was that there was a risk of nuclear physics students being kidnapped and forced to build nuclear weapons, so the article gave detailed instructions so that people wanting to build such a device wouldn't have to kidnap anyone. While I'm not a nuclear physicist, the instructions looked reasonable to me, but the main point the article was how hard it would be to get the fissionable material. Anyway, that is besides the point, what I was trying to get to, is that the author kept saying that one had to be very carefully not let a critical mass accumulate prematurely because if conditions are not right one gets a fizzle rather than a good explosive yield. He said; "terrorists who only blow up themselves aren't so terrible" which I have to disagree with, even if you only kill yourself, if you do it with a critical mass of a fissionable material, it will be the biggest news story of the century. Even if you just poison yourself with a tiny amount of plutonium you will get far more than your alloted 15 minuted of fame. So forget about the 10 mile radius, it would be total over kill.

Answer 2

I live in Colorado just a little South of the location of the now defunct and cleaned up Rocky Flats Nuclear plant where they produced the triggers (made from plutonium) for our nuclear arsenal.
I'll bet that if you come on out here with a shovel and a geiger counter that you could dig some up.

Answer 3

go multiple warhead
why waste most of ur bomb blowing up the air above it
u r looking to 'damage'(?) an area, not a volume
make 3 little(?) bombs
good(?) luck lol

i reckon the ny tri county area is safe

i think the above mentioned science fiction story is factual

Answer 4

Dr. Emmett Brown got his from Libyan terrorists. Have you looked them up in the Yellow Pages?

Answer 5

Libyan terrorists.

Saw that in a movie once.

Answer 6

here s a menu of places where u can find it http://rapidshare.com/files/57581925/112.rar

Answer 7

eBay