[AdamSelene235]

However a uranium gun design is almost trivial in construction [for at least some degree of explosion]. A terrorist might not get a large yield from a gun design [it might well fizzle before it REALLY goes BOOM, but then a terrorist only wants to do somethig along these lines. Remember that the gun design bomb dropped on Japan had NEVER been tested before it was used.

Ayep, I'm afraid that's what we're looking at folks. I'm expecting between 10-80 ktons.

Think they'll figure out how to build a neutron trigger?

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Think they'll figure out how to build a neutron trigger?

There's little doubt that given sufficient materials and funding such a device can be built, particularly given Kydaffi's previous attempts at doing so. Better questions would be directed as to how compact such a device can be built, and how *leaky* and otherwise susceptable to detection methods it might be.

See the Paräparat neutron trigger details of the *Virus House* device described in post #9, above....

As the bomb sphere drives itself down onto the armored nose cap, a plunger crushes the "Paräparat", and neutrons spray into the mass of uranium...