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Originally Posted by zen_tom
If it is done properly, it would be very hard to do just that - every gram of uranium/plutonium needs to be accounted for, for very valid safety reasons, circumventing these checks would need to involve so many people that it would be very hard to do without the truth leaking out.
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I am actually very aware of what the safety reasons are as well as what the potential hazards are of uranium and plutonium production and bomb manufacture
No it would not be hard to do, not when it is state sanctioned.
Hell, I grew up not that terribly far from Rocky Flats (where H-bomb cores were made). There is still a horrible mess there with a lot of material going unaccounted for. (The couple of HUNDRED pounds of plutonium dust in the DUCT WORK is another story...)
This is BY ACCIDENT in the country that invented the bomb.
And you are saying that a state that wanted to purposefully keep 14.4 pounds (less with proper design) of bomb grade plutonium off the books couldn't do it?