>>81492397I just wanted to let you all know that the key to making these bombs is having an absolutely pure substance. So if we are talking about uranium, they usually start out with uranium that is already 90% pure, which takes a decently long time to make, and it's good enough for nuclear power generation. But you need 100%. Uranium in order to make the bomb. You have to have buildings that are giant, like larger then a football field, with tables all over with centrifuges on it that run and they will each have about a liter of fluid in it, and it will take about 3 years to get that leader fluid to a purity that they are looking for. Nearly 100%, and then they can take that leader of fluid, go to another place where it's all pretty much poured out but inside of a machinery that is sterile and vacuum tight machineries needed as well, evaporate the fluid out because it's really molecular uranium that is floating around, and then you end up with a bunch of dust from all these, and it's actually small qualities of dust. Like, less than a gram. And any animal together and you don't even melt it down. You use heat and pressure to make a ball out of it. It's an amazingly labor intensive process. And we constantly have spies sabotaging shit over there which is why they were always close to having a bomb, but never quite getting there.
Back when I used to work essentially as a spy with the cia, there would be a couple of us as workers, and we would sabotage it by introducing contaminants to these centrifuges. Everything was tightly controlled, so what we could do is stand at a table and kind of scratch at it for a little while, and then you'd have this tiny amount of dust from the table that you've been scratching at, and you can put it in there. That centrifuge will be able to get 90% of that dust out of it within a minute, but that other 10% will take more than a year.