ESSAY
"Plutonium vs. Uranium: The Road Less Traveled"
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Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"In a world where nuclear proliferation may no
longer be held back by the guise of antiproliferation treaties, where the news,
everyday, warns us of the impending shadow of nuclear terror we live under, it
is frightening that so many people don’t know how such a threat is made. It will
be the attempt of this paper to help clarify some point of confusion,
specifically delineating the differences between the Uranium, the Plutonium, and
briefly the Hydrogen bomb....
...The methodology behind producing such weapons of mass destruction has not
advanced very much since its conception, but its production certainly has. If
know-how is half the battle, then perhaps this explanation will make you feel
safer..."