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Nuclear Weapons Material

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Subject: Nuclear Weapons Material
From: [email protected] (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 94 09:58:08 EDT
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In-Reply-To: Ed Carp [Sysadmin]'s message of Thu, 25 Aug 1994 00:19:49 -0500 (CDT) <[email protected]>
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> Wrong.  If you will notice, I said "the earliest devices".  They didn't 
> use plutonium for nuclear devices until much later.

Actually, to pick a nit, the first a-bomb exploded (Alamogordo) was a
plutonium device.  The U235 design was dropped on Hiroshima untested.

Paul

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