France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia over a Submarine Deal

Re:France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia ... by sudosysgen on Friday September 17, 2021 @08:39PM (#28572473)

Pretty much, yes. Enrichment is the hard part and US subs have fuel enriched enough for a gun type nuke.

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Re:France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia ... by systemvoltage on Friday September 17, 2021 @08:45PM (#28572519)

I wonder if the subs have enough quantity of fuel to make a respectable explosion. Like if they need to ditch 8 subs to make a bomb, it is pretty low risk if I were China.

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Re:France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia ... by sudosysgen on Friday September 17, 2021 @09:08PM (#28572652)

If you run the number, you'll find that a sub is going to have at least a half a ton of highly enriched uranium, perhaps even more than a ton.

You wouldn't even need to ditch a single sub to make multiple warheads, certainly not if you use an implosion design as any country can pretty easily do nowadays.

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