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NNadir

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2. I'm sure it's easy to get, at least on what I hear from all those people worried about "nuclear terrorism."

Reply to hunter (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 8, 2024, 07:50 PM

Mar 2024

Walgreens maybe?

It's amazing that Timothy McVeigh didn't detonate a nuclear weapon and used something much harder to get than plutonium/gallium alloys, diesel fuel and fertilizer.

And then there's 9/11, which involved jet fuel.

How come no one ever worries about petroleum terrorism?

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About that funny story I told my son some years ago about the plutonium/gallium phase diagram. [View all] NNadir Mar 2024 OP

Can anyone tell me where I might obtain a small sample of this delta phase plutonium/gallium alloy? hunter Mar 2024 #1

I'm sure it's easy to get, at least on what I hear from all those people worried about "nuclear terrorism." NNadir Mar 2024 #2