Probably a stupid car question...

[--Pete]

Hi,

Right, but one little slip up in the machining process can severly effect the implossion.

Yes. Hence castable molds, density measurements, and x-rays.

What should scare you more is that there are magazines out there with actual schematics and such on how to do it.

That is quite scary.

But what should scare you less is that, unlike what governments tell us, there are not so many people that want to blow us up.

While that is true, there are some. Consider what a handful did with three (almost four) airliners. Now imagine what a small group (maybe 5 or 6) could do with a nuclear weapon in a major financial center (New York, Geneva, Hong Kong, Tokyo). When terrorism consisted of one anarchist with a pistol shooting an unpopular archduke, what you say might have been true (but consider the events generated by that small cause).

Here we are talking abut explosives but there are much more ways of making victims....also for weird loners that are angry at the world and for terrorist that are organized.

We're talking about nuclear weapons. A bit more than what comes to mind when someone mentions explosives. The only thing I can think of more dangerous would be a perfect* biological weapon. While a nuke can potentially kill millions, a biological could kill billions.

* By perfect biological weapon, I mean one that has the following characteristics:
1) It must be transmittable as an aerosol (spray, cough, sneeze) as well as contact.
2) It must have a reasonable (5 minutes or more) lifespan outside the human body.
3) It must be resistant to antiseptics and antibiotics.
4) There should be a few days of mild symptoms, including a cough or sneezing, before severe effects are noticed.
5) During those days of mild symptoms, the infected party should be contagious.
6) After the symptoms become severe, death should follow rapidly -- preferably in a few hours.

Imagine a single container of such an agent released into the crowd of check in or security scan passengers at a major international airport. Before anyone even noticed, there would be a world wide epidemic. Before any effective measures could be taken, most of the population could be dead.

Now, I know that each of those six points are possible, indeed, exist. AFAIK they don't exist in a single organism, but then again the governments that deny doing experiments in biological warfare would hardly publish the results of those experiments.

The fact is just that luckily most people are sane enough not to want to do this.

Ah, but it only takes one, or perhaps a small group, to do vast amounts of damage.

--Pete