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Re: Nuclear Weapons Material



> Not to mention the fact that without tritium, the "trigger" for nuclear
> weapons (and extremely expensive and rare at $ 100m a gram) all you have
> is a radioactive paperweight.

   But tritium is (relatively) easy to obtain if you have the money.  A 
federal permit is required to purchase it in large quantities in the US, 
but it is still _MUCH_ more easily obtained than plutonium.

-jon