1. The Role of Nuclear Weapons in a Post Cold War World of Terr
... fields of nuclear engineering, nuclear physics and computational physics have graduated many scientists and engineers that are quite capable of figuring out how to design a nuclear weapon that would work. In fact, the tendency would be to over design the weapon. U.S. policy of not classifying basic research has led to numerous publicly available technical papers that the technically astute could use as ... technically simpler than a modern automobile and the knowledge of how to make a crude weapon is widely available. If a nation state can procure fissile material, it can figure out how...
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