It’s more about detonation altitude. Both Nagasaki and Hiroshima were air busts - very little lingering radiation. Those who died, died from the prompt radiation from the bombs themselves, not fallou… (View Post)

Most believe that Israel achieved fission devices in the late 60s. The largest pure fission plutonium bomb ever fired was French, at 225Kt I believe. With access to 90% enriched uranium, the American… (View Post)

Which is why Israel has so many nukes - its policy is to utterly destroy, if defeated, all counties it is at war with. So if a country is doing the performative “Death to Israel, but we don’t actuall… (View Post)

a Given the level Israeli intelligence so far, the Iranians probably transferred it to Dimona. (View Post)

I could build a Hiroshima style gun-type weapon, given the fissile material, in a hobby workshop. Little Boy way hilariously over engineered, in the end. Some steel pipe and some gunpowder pretty muc… (View Post)