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<tt>(12:08:06 PM) elizabeth warren: that'll get you on a list or three</tt>
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Don't blame me, man. I didn't do it.
''WarGames'' taught us that computers and nuclear weapons are more interesting than dogs, parents, or Ally Sheedy, and more trustworthy than feelings. A computer program is simple interactions, tightly arranged, run billions of times per second. A nuclear detonation is basically the same thing, designed to be run only once.
==Nuclear hobbyism / pitporn==
==Nuclear hobbyism / pitporn==
Your modern criticality fetishist has a rough time of things. Since 2001-09-11, great stocks of (unclassified) information have been purged from government sites. Various fellow travelers (see the [[Nuclear weapons#See Also|See Also]] section) maintain partial archives. Relevant conference proceedings (compressed matter physics, etc) get snapped up on used book sites quickly. My recommendation is a thorough grounding in nuclear engineering and the relevant mathematical methods (which you'll come across in the NucE books), at which point you'll be well-equipped to daydream about your own neutron initiator ideas and radical implosion symmetries.
Your modern criticality fetishist has a rough time of things. Since 2001-09-11, great stocks of (unclassified) information have been purged from government sites. Various fellow travelers (see the [[Nuclear weapons#See Also|See Also]] section) maintain partial archives. Relevant conference proceedings (compressed matter physics, etc) get snapped up on used book sites quickly. My recommendation is a thorough grounding in nuclear engineering and the relevant mathematical methods (which you'll come across in the NucE books), at which point you'll be well-equipped to daydream about your own neutron initiator ideas and radical implosion symmetries.