Is your city prepared for a home-made nuke?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327163.900-is-your-city-prepared-for-a-homemade-nuke.html?full=true

by winanga • 17 years ago

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lutorm• 17 years ago

I mean yeah, it's good to be prepared, but given how much money would be thrown at every town preparing for a nuclear attack that could happen with some very low probability, I can't but think that if we want to save peoples lives the money could be better invested in things like reducing traffic accidents, accidental gunshot wounds, obesity, cancer or any number of things that kill that many people every couple of years.

EvanK• 17 years ago

Nuclear technology is not something you can just build in your garage. You can't just download the specs off the internet, pick up some plutonium and cooling rods at the Home Depot, and do it over the weekend. It requires an immense amount of knowledge and skill that can't be easily acquired, and billions of dollars of specialized equipment and raw materials.

No one short of a sovereign nation has the resources to even potentially acquire a nuke. And no sovereign nation would attack another nation with a nuke, because the backlash would far outweigh any gains. Even Kim Jong Il realizes this, and he's about as mentally unstable as leaders get.

Is your city prepared for a home-made nuke?

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