1994-08-23 - Re: Nuclear Weapons Material

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From: Jonathan Cooper <entropy@IntNet.net>
To: Mark Terka <werewolf@io.org>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-08-23 21:34:51 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 23 Aug 94 14:34:51 PDT

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From: Jonathan Cooper <entropy@IntNet.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 94 14:34:51 PDT
To: Mark Terka <werewolf@io.org>
Subject: Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
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> 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

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