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mighty_man turned me on to a basic reproduction of it, called, simply enough, DEFCON: Everybody Dies. Fun, if simplistic.
By a completely different set of directions (photography links shared byjaylake), I wound up on the Trinity site, which discusses the real deal, and answered a question I'd wondered about for a long time, but had never looked up the answer.
Q: "How much fissile stuff would you need to lay your hands on to make a bomb, anyway?"
A1: "The complete fission of 1 pound of uranium or plutonium releases as much explosive energy as does the explosion of about 8,000 (short) tons of TNT."
A2 : "The fusion of all the nuclei present in 1 pound of the hydrogen isotope deuterium would release roughly the same amount of energy as the explosion of 26,000 tons of TNT."
[source: http://www.abomb1.org/nukeffct/enw77a.html]
More neat info about Uranium, along with a primer on Depleted Uranium munitions, can be found here.
mighty_man turned me on to a basic reproduction of it, called, simply enough, DEFCON: Everybody Dies. Fun, if simplistic.By a completely different set of directions (photography links shared by
jaylake), I wound up on the Trinity site, which discusses the real deal, and answered a question I'd wondered about for a long time, but had never looked up the answer.Q: "How much fissile stuff would you need to lay your hands on to make a bomb, anyway?"
A1: "The complete fission of 1 pound of uranium or plutonium releases as much explosive energy as does the explosion of about 8,000 (short) tons of TNT."
A2 : "The fusion of all the nuclei present in 1 pound of the hydrogen isotope deuterium would release roughly the same amount of energy as the explosion of 26,000 tons of TNT."
[source: http://www.abomb1.org/nukeffct/enw77a.html]
More neat info about Uranium, along with a primer on Depleted Uranium munitions, can be found here.
