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Re:John A Phillips by wnkrshm on Friday September 02, 2022 @05:13AM (#32688502)
Can you rotate a plutonium "carousel" fast enough and then make all the pieces crash into a wall, onto each other...

Edit: Idk, something about flywheels, they can store a huge amount of energy and release it very quickly.

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Re:John A Phillips by danbruc on Friday September 02, 2022 @05:41AM (#32688711)
Probably not, we are talking really short timescales here. The nuclear explosion is over before you can even see the first crack in the housing of your bomb.
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