Not that you asked for my opinion on this, but it’s all good. He only got his hackles raised because of some of the things I said to him. And he’s admitted now he doesn’t really know anything about all the things he claimed (for pages) to know all about, so I think we can put this all behind us now and move on to more interesting discussions of what comes next.
I'm glad you are a lawyer, Super. Given that you claim to be an expert in this area, perhaps you can clear something up for the rest of us. If someone makes an allegation against someone else, and the person that the allegation is made against denies the allegation, does this denial in fact mean that the person issuing the denial is guilty? For example, if I say "my best friend John slept with my wife", and John says, "What? That's ridiculous, of course I didn't do that!", does that mean that John screwed my wife? Because that's what the "hit dog hollers" argument implies, and I have always found that this argument was incredibly stupid.
No one endorsed it, and no one jumped all over that poster the way I was jumped on for stating that we're not all going to die tomorrow in World War III.
I don't disagree with anything you say. But the first time the US tested a uranium "bullet" type bomb was at Hiroshima. That is how certain the US was that its uranium bomb would work. The first time plutonium "implosion" bomb was tested was at the Trinity site. Since those first two "tests" the US has exploded exactly one uranium "bullet" type bomb, testing of a nuclear artillery round.
It's fascinating to look back and the progress made between the early 1900s through 1960s. The rate of contributions was incredible.
Lol, its not that anyone "minds" or doesn't mind what I post. They know im posting genuinely and not from some contrarian trolling bullshit perspective. You've done the latter so many times that indeed you're almost.always going to catch hell even if people agree with you.
Sure. They just aren't that powerful. Remember: nukes are supposed to be detonated above ground, like 1000 feet or more. It gives the shockwave more time to expand and destroy. Iran would not likely be detonating at that altitude, so the actual force of the bomb would be considerably less. I don't think they are going to all this trouble to develop a half Little Boy bomb.
A hit dog hollers is the redneck version of the "lady doth protest too much, methinks." Its validity depends on context. A single denial as in your example here, I would not say hit dog hollers. But we all understand the circumstances in which the expression is descriptive. I have no opinion on your dispute because I didn't even really follow the discussion.
Can a little boy type bomb not be used as the first stage of a thermonuclear bomb?
It’s what Netanyahu wants
Yes, but then you have to make the second stage. Actually, I don't know how powerful the fission reaction has to be to set off the fusion reaction -- I'm pretty sure, though not 100%, that Teller's H-Bomb used a plutonium fuel, not uranium. Not sure if that's required.
I don't really know (we never studied weapon construction in school), but I think it's because of a small mass difference and being solid.
