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imjesusbitch t1_je3hje1 wrote

Reply to comment by Narwhalbaconguy in Ukraine Defense intelligence shows insides of Shahed drones, which Russia uses to attack by DoremusJessup

In 1964, two people in their 20s designed a nuclear bomb with a yield equivalent to the one dropped on hiroshima in less than three years, using nothing but their phds and public knowledge. Complete amateurs when it comes to making a nuclear bomb. That was Nth Country Experiment. Fascinating read.

McVeigh and Nichols both had high school diplomas and look at the destruction those two bozos caused.

Fuck me the world would truly be a frightening place if psychopaths had more ambition.

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El3ctricalSquash t1_je3zw4j wrote

Psychopaths have plenty of ambition, look how many end up in places like the White House and congress.

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imjesusbitch t1_je679be wrote

The scope of destruction politicians can cause directly and indirectly is incomparable to what your average psychopath joe has ever done. So I didn't take baconguy's use of civilian literally. Timmy killed 160 some people that day. How many can you argue the US federal government has killed? Almost half a mil/year was the estimate according to Forbes back in 2020.

Feels different when they do it compared to some rando. A bomb or mass shooting is really direct and in your face. Policy not so much.

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Love_God551 t1_je4iwsy wrote

Now this is scary

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imjesusbitch t1_je7h5qy wrote

Oh buddy, how about some home-made drones dispensing vx gas while it zooms around a populated city. That's doable for someone with a chemical and engineering background.

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sambull t1_je9c89l wrote

That's why they regulated them.. they are a modern useful weapon.

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MiaowaraShiro t1_je4wk27 wrote

Designing the bombs was the relatively easy part of the process and these two had the benefit of 20 yrs of knowledge since the invention.

The really tough part at the time was refining enough uranium for it.

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imjesusbitch t1_je7gt8z wrote

This is true but the same done today would have the benefit of 80 years of knowledge and all the advancement done in enriching uranium. Russia would probably sell both the uranium and the plutonium rn for cheap, considering the state they're in.

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