Just a thought to make your day:

About three weeks after Hiroshima was bombed, Life Magazine (10¢ off the newsstand at the time) had a two-page spread, complete with diagrams, on how the atomic bomb was put together. All it takes is a couple of pieces of fissionable material that add up to a wad about the size of a grapefruit (critical mass) and some method of slapping them together real quick. Once you had the fissionable material, any competent mechanic could put one together. At the age of fourteen, I read the article and studied the diagrams with considerable fascination

There it was, for the price of one thin dime. And they hanged the Rosenbergs for allegedly giving away "nuclear secrets."

As far as fissionable material is concerned, between the United States and the former Soviet Union, hundreds and hundreds of pounds of the stuff, perhaps tons (bomb grade), is unaccounted for.

I'm definitely not a "blame America first" type, but it does strike me that in this modern world, it really doesn't pay to go out of your way to make other people really hate your guts (no matter how righteous you deem yourself to be).

Don Firth