>>13876528Also for I'm really disturbed at the thought of how easy it is to design a nuclear weapon. In 1964-1967 experiment conducted at Lawrence Livermore Lab, two PhD students successfully designed an effective implosive style nuclear weapon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment>The experiment ended on April 10, 1967, after only three man-years of work over two and a half calendar years. According to a heavily redacted declassified version of the summary, it was apparently judged by lab weapons experts that the team had come up with a credible design for the technically more challenging implosion style nuclear weapon. It is likely that they would have been able to design a simpler gun combination weapon even more quickly, though in such a case the limiting factor in developing such a weapon is not usually design difficulty but rather the procurement of material (enriched uranium). Then I found out that Australian physicists have found out an effective way to enrich uranium using method called Separation of isotopes by laser excitation (SILEX). Which is really concerning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_isotopes_by_laser_excitation>In 2010, concerns were raised that the SILEX process poses a threat to global nuclear security. Compared to current enrichment technologies, the SILEX process requires as little as 25% of the space and consumes considerably less energy. It is reportedly almost undetectable from orbit, potentially allowing rogue governments' activities to go undetected by the international community.Adding the fact that Russia and China have successfully tested their hypersonic missiles, I think we're going to be fucked in a big way if we don't start doing something about it.
