Nuclear weapon

Ciro Santilli is mildly obsessed by nuclear reactions, because they are so quirky. How can a little ball destroy a city? How can putting too much of it together produce criticality and kill people like in the Slotin accident or the Tokaimura criticality accident. It is mind blowing really.

Uranium vs plutonium: Section "Uranium vs plutonium Quora answer by Ciro Santilli".

More fun nuclear stuff to watch:

The B Reactor of the facility produced the plutonium used for Trinity and Fat Man, and then for many more thousand bombs during the Cold War. More precisely, this was done at

Located in Washington, in a dry place the middle of the mountainous areas of the Western United states, where basically no one lives. The Columbia river is however nearby, that river is quite large, and provided the water needed by their activities, notably for cooling the nuclear reactors. It is worth it having look on Google Maps to get a feel for the region.

Unlike many other such laboratories, this one did not become a United States Department of Energy national laboratories. It was likely just too polluted.

Bibliography:

Reactor of the Hanford site of the produced the plutonium used for Trinity and Fat Man.

The first human-made nuclear chain reaction.

The lab that made Chicago Pile-1, located in the University of Chicago. Metallurgical in this context basically as in "working with the metals uranium and plutonium".

Given their experience, they also designed the important X-10 Graphite Reactor and the B Reactor which were built in other locations.

Plutonium-based.

Its plutonium was produced at Hanford site.

Their website, and in particular the recruitment section, are so creepy.

There's not mention of bombs. No photos of atomic explosions. The words "atomic" and "weapon" do not even show up in the front page!!! The acronym AWE is instead used everywhere as an euphemism.

In the recruitment section we can see a bunch of people smiling: web.archive.org/web/20211007213222/https://www.awe.co.uk/careers/working-at-awe/, suggesting:

We make nukes, and we do it with a smile!

There's even children outreach!!!

Ciro Santilli is not against storing a few nukes to be ready against dictatorships. But don't be such a pussy! Just say what the fuck you are doing more clearly! You are making weapons to kill people and destroy things in order to maintain the Balance of power. If the public can't handle such facts, then shut down the fucking program.

Knock knock.

Ah, the choice of name, both grim and slightly funny, Dr. Strangelove comes to mind quite strongly.

Ciro Santilli's jaw dropped when he learned about this concept. A Small Talent for War, are you sure?

plutonium-based.

Its plutonium was produced at Hanford site.

uranium-based, dropped on Hiroshima. The uranium was enriched at the Clinton Engineer Works.