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Originally posted by jonny2410
If you are wrong i think the OP should be banned.
No one forced you to make this prediction so the consequences are entirely on you.
That said if you are right you have my respect.
Originally posted by Caveat Lector
It's with great disappointment that you have to read the following for it did not have to be.
July 20, 2010 either two things will happen. Israel will unitarily attack Iran or the decision makers will hold hands and agree to go ahead.
Here's what you don't know:
Originally posted by Caveat Lector
For those of you reading this that don't have knowledge of the Bolsheviks in Russia and where their support base came have no place replying to this thread. So please come up to speed first.
The isotope plutonium-239 is a key fissile component in nuclear weapons, due to its ease of fission and availability
The most important isotope of plutonium is plutonium-239, with a half-life of 24,100 years.
Originally posted by Caveat Lector
Originally posted by Caveat Lector
For those of you reading this that don't have knowledge of the Bolsheviks in Russia and where their support base came have no place replying to this thread. So please come up to speed first.
Please chaps, 30mins on the subject above, before posting yeh?
[edit on 16/7/10 by Caveat Lector]
On the eve of the February Revolution, the Bolshevik party had about 10,000 members, of whom 364 were ethnic Jews
According to the 1922 party census, there were 19,564 Jewish members of the Bolsheviks, comprising 5.21% of the total.
Very short maintenance cycles would, in any event, be required to keep such a device operational. While it is possible to produce a 10kt yield with a fairly light device i.e. slightly less than 100kg (220 lbs), using a minimum of plutonium to achieve critical mass, the device would require the use of tritium to increase the yield. Without proper and regular maintenance, the yield would within a couple of years, decline to minimal levels as the tritium degraded.