It all seems possible for a very determined mind. The only problem (fortunately) I see is actually getting the plutonium or uranium :) And again, I'm just a simple stumbler.. with enough money you can get anything.

If anyone can spare some plutonium I need it for my delorean to generate 1.21 gigawats of electricity and activate the flux capacitor to get back to my time.

I promise this plutonium will not be used to make a bomb for Lybian terrorist.

If anyone can spare it please contact me I only need about 23 pounds of it

I have some in my basement, haven't needed it in years.

Wow hahahahaha that's funny you guys are geeks and if you have anything to say about it email me!

@micheal jackson: What is the world coming to when Micheal Jackson starts calling people like us geeks.

c'mon! this is so stupid.... i mean any terrorist can go online and use these instructions, that may be true, and build a bomb.... i vote against this How To make an Atomic bomb.... it's just bad!

You're a fool. You could read this and any other post on the internet and still not know how to make the shell of an atomic weapon. It's called Nuclear Engineering, you don't posses 1/32ths the intelligence required to manufacture a damn home made rocket! I'm attending Rolla University of Science and Technology for Aerospace Engineering, similar in difficulty to Nuclear Engineering. I assure you that you, your friends, your friends friends, and your friends friends parents friends friends couldn't conjure the intelligence to produce any of this. This is a VEEERRRYYY basic list of materials, key components that are no secret. Perhaps this webpage shouldn't intimidate you as much as what you're child is learning in school -as he learns more about nuclear weapons and how to manufacture them than this sight begins to teach, he just doesn't know it. What about me? I've taken the physics and chemistry classes, I'm getting a Major in Aerospace Engineering and a Minor in Chemical engineering, do you think I couldn't already create a nuclear explosion? You're a fool, you're talking about a field of science that is so heavily regulated that it is impossible! Most countries can't get a hold of the materials needed to make it, yet you're worried about an intelligent citizen posting a basic educational instruction manual intended to enlighten you? He hasn't told you anything accept for a little on the Periodic table and a few element names, you could have gathered all of this by opening a High school Physics or Chemistry book -maybe you should try it -your ignorance scares me more than terrorists.

Seriously, getting hold of the raw materials is near enough to impossible, and the whole thing fairly pointless. It's just having a go.

well if you got these materials let me know to check whether this bomb will work or not lol .. i dont believe it will work ... and I agree with Zac if this is a real bomb.

Well, quite frankly think this whole things is a bowl of strawberries and cream, I mean its brilliant. You are undermining the only power that these crettins hold over us. Yeah!! lets all make atomic bombs and shove them in each others faces... Rock on!!

honestly it's no secret anymore, but its not stuff u can buy at a hardware store

Honestly, as this reviewer said, technology for manufacture of Atomic bombs or thermonuclear bombs is no longer a secret. It is freely available. Yes! one need not search the Internet for information. In any case, who would openly leak out nuclear secrets for free ! Can as well get some dough ( money for it ! )
Base information about making a nuclear Bomb is freely available in the Internet or encyclopedia ! Like, theory classes in a college lecture Hall. But refined procedures to make the same work is is available to a select few only ( Few means - about 1000 or more scientists around the world . ) Last reports ( at the time of breakup of the Former Soviet Union ) suggested that probably about 500 of their nuclear scientists ( those who were involved in making nuclear bombs ! ) were thrown jobless subsequently ! it's very easy to " hire " them and " fire " them after their usage is over ! Why blame the soviets only ? Any citizen scientist of any nuclear power would willingly disclose classified information provided he/she gets adequately compensated ! So the technology is available - for a fee , of course ! . Hardware is the biggest problem. Where does one find the source for buying Uranium ( raw Uranium ) You cant't just walk into an ore site and just ask for a few truckloads of Uranium ore . Nobody sells Uranium ore like one sells cigarettes on the road ! Okay , so getting the base raw, raw, material is the first deadlock ! If one happened to get hold of Uranium ore by some means, the centrifuge business is equally daunting ! It will cost millions of dollars to set up a Uranium enrichment centrifuge facility ( Technology for a centrifuge is easily available ! ) Going one step further, the U-235 ( pure uranium ) can be used to make a fusion Nuclear Bomb as designed ( technically speaking ! ) in this article with refinements, wherever necessary . What does one do, if one has the technology, but not enough resources to manufacture it ? Again another deadlock ! Assuming that U-235 is available with you , but you are not going to go through the complex procedure of a fusion explosion, you can think of using Plutonium -239 to make a fission nuclear bomb ! How do you get nuclear fission quality Plutonium ? Only after building a multi crore facility called a fast breeder reactor ! , using heavy water and turning the spent U-235 fuel rods into plutonium ! Another deadlock ! Plutonium bomb is easier to make than a Uranium bomb, for obvious reasons ! So , one has the necessary technology in one's hands ( whether procured by good means or bad ! ) but not the resources to build a nuclear Bomb ! So, what's the final result ? Might as well not have ( or obtain ! ) the technology, which anyway, can never be implemented by Individuals ( even terrorists ! ) or Institutions , unless, governmental & Law enforcement agencies gang up with you to make the bomb ! Otherwise, it's only a NOTIONAL bombs, of which, one has NO USE !

Last weekend i walked into Lowes and asked for 10 kg of Plutonium 239 isotope and was arrested on the spot. I mean granted my name is Muhammed and I have a massive amount of facial hair while sporting a turban, but can't a man try to get his hands on some radioactive material without people asking questions!?

So, getting some fissionable material might be a bit of a problem, since it is forbidden by law to posses it in any country wealthy enough to afford it. Or you should be the head of one of those countries, in addition, usually military forces of almost any country get very annoyed if some of their uranium gets lost. Supposing you were to get some U235 and succesfully used it, scientist will figure out where did you get that stuff from, because Uranium or any ohter radiactiv material has its particular chemical composition due to the place it comes from. Even after the bomb blew everything it will still be traces to recon...

This is rubbish, having access on these materials, is a miracle, however, if anyone could be able to get, question, will he/she will able to create, not at all !

I thank you Mr. Lucian Dorneanu,
You have my word, your country will be the last one to get nuked.
*Goes to his back yard and starts making nukeS*

...NOT!
No one can get hold of such materials, let along gets the equipment to make such a weapon. Thats a blessing I tell ya.

Hahaha i like this :p
and for those that are so stupid and think this is possible for a normal person
you should think about a thing or two..
1) How are you gonna get Uranium / Plutonium?
2) To get them refined you need a machine that can send Electrons in about 2x speed of light to them.. (good luck getting hold on that)
3) putting the highly radioactive stuff togehter.....?

Get the point? good luck.. :p

actually it's possible to get plutonium. it's easy to get in in russia cause they are selling it to normal people and it's true. it's possible to put it all together too if you know much about physics

everything is possible

Atomic boms and nuclear boms are different #1
and #2 it's nearly impossible if your not a hilghly trained porfessional because you could get a blood disease from the radioactivity if ur not carefull
but if you think you can just go on an kill urself.

first of all, you can't make the bomb... even a very experienced person in this field has lots of problems w/ the enrichment of uranium 235. It takes at least a year to enrich this uranium to raise it to about 80% enrichment. Even whose fields are nuclear chemistry or physics, they have a hard time to follow the procedure. This procedure is not accurate in detail. It's just a general idea. EX: they would just tell you that they used a plane to go to the moon. Thus getting to the point that the Uranium 235 is good enriched, takes a long time. It's true that they can trace the uranium you got. They would check the characteristic of the enriched uranium. Each country has their own tech. to enrich this uranium.
2nd of all, it's not enough to find a reactor that it can control the speed of the uranium rate... and it energy... you need lots of machines because you need to know what wave function you should use to get the beta, alpha or gama rays... you need to have a IR(a reading machine for the instrcture of the molecules)... a very good centrifuge... there are lots of centrifuges... but you need to get the one that has the highest ability to rotate more...there is no use in the centrifuge that can not rotate fast enough in a specific amount of time to separate the uranium 235.... this process has been done in chem labs. Even the TA's can not achieve a good result for easy solutions... It's always fuzzy and the solution doesn't usually get cleared... so you need to know lots of physical chem. beside that, you need to have the right equipment for ionization... depending upon what tech. you use, you need different equipments such as lazers... just go over Einstein theories... I'm very impressed w/ the things he had done... EX: you can think of the person who rides a motorcycle... How does that person go up the wall w/ his bike and doesn't fall off... see if you can relate the theory that is used to earth that it exactly circles around itself in a way that its distance w/ sun doesn't change... otherwise we were been dead because of severe coldness or hot weather of the earth... it would be waste of time if you are interested in this subject only because it's a hot topic among people. You just actually have to know lots of stuff about how their machines actually work...

actually 1 u fire nuetrons into them and u have to fire them very slowly to crreate fission bcos when the nuetron hits it too fast it bounces off where as wehn it is fired in slowly it connetcts to the atom making in unstable making it split

soo get it roond ye

It is not as hard to acquire uranium as many of you think. There are privatly owned uranium mines through out the Uninted States. The main problem is making the Uranium wepons grade. This whould prove to be unbelievably expensive. Besides, any individual probably isn't mentally capable of building an atomic wepon.

Sure i can spare some plutonium marty, only if you get me Ash's pikachu

Did you guys know that plutonium was used to power heart pacemakers back in the 70s?

http://home.comcast.net/~dprutchi/nuclear_pacemakers.pdf

LETS GO HARVEST SOME MIDDLE-AGED PEOPLE WITH HEART PROBLEMS!

This much info is insufficient . But by the time we were pondering, some people in pentagon gave the tech to napaki people , who did all that was to be done and even passed it on to Iran , N.Korea & Libya thanks to United States of Nuclear America . If Iran gets N-bombs , remember it is american technology.
Frankenstein.
Cross ur fingers.

this is so stupid if u think u can get hold of this stuff then u need 2 go 2a hospital and get ur brain checked seriously and IF this works thats juz gona be retarted cuz this is only for pro use only nooooooooooooooo i mean NOOOOO normal person can make this with 4 easy steps im like 11 years old and kno better then all u crazy weird people

hahaha funny stuff.
Seriously guys, this wasn't actually meant to teach people how to make a bomb. It's just for fun. You don't need to live in fear of a nuclear holocaust because of this guy's instructions. :P
:D

Children you need not squable over a nuclear holocaust for I am come to take you home.

There's a funny headline. "Teenagers all across nation obliterating their hometowns in nuclear bomb making accidents. Where did they learn it? The internet!"

Ok you have a fair point but jesus learn some english!
True you can't get these required materials unless ofcourse you have a ridiculous amount of money, and the right sources.

wow now i can finaly play fallout 3 in real life with my friends!!!!
but uhm i dont think it wil work even if it works i woukld take to much money to make

Well, this article certainly is interesting. However, I am quite sure that obtaining radioactive materials and making them weapon-grade will present difficulties, which will deter many people, so this website will not be responsible for a nuclear holocaust whether 'Jesus' is here to gather us home or not.

hahahah this article made me laugh, though not as much as "mats" number 2 reason you can't follow the steps of this article
2) To get them refined you need a machine that can send Electrons in about 2x speed of light to them.. (good luck getting hold on that)
I wonder why Fission bombs exist if they require a machine which does the impossible i.e. breaking the theory of relativity which clearly states that the closer an object gets to the speed of light the more it's mass increasing directly proportional to it's speed, the increase of mass means that it will never reach the speed of light, I'm terrified at the thought of an electron, even with it's tiny initial mass, going two times the speed of light and colliding with anything.

THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN BUILD UR OWN BOMB UNLESS U HAVE TRILLIONS

lol, whoever attempts this is a retard, incurring the fact that such an attempt is illegal and futile, the cost of enriched plutonium/uranium is more than that of the average person can afford, and the military has satalites that can detect if someone is building such a thing from radiation/x-ray/thermal, if you are caught, you WILL be shipped to a military prison, only to be interrigated later, and also, the bombs built by the military are high-quality, SAFE, and were built under the supervision of profesionals, building you own can result in catastrophic failure, usually resulting in death, depending on the degree of the failure, as stated below:

Detonation while you are in proximity(catastrophic): Death

Exposure to excessive radiation(severe): R. Poisoning/Death/Cancer

Ingestion of any of the radioactive elements(mild: Deadly poisoning/Cancer/Death

Detection by military satalites(non-failure):Up to life imprisonment

I HIGHLY recomend you do NOT attempt ANY such thing, doing so will most likely result in VERY bad consequences

Just to say you dont really have to go out and try and mine or buy all the required items to make this atomic bomb last time I checked afterthe cold war Russia lost track of a lot of there atomic weapons and I am sure if you go to there country with enough money or enough wits on old military locations you can find enough of each weapon if not a hole weapon to make one and by the way the blue prints for the weapon one this artical would make a atomic weapon and would be able to a blast with it only thing about this is your target could not be in the U.S. the chances of you getting the material from within the U.S. is very unlikely inless its a Gov. conspiricy of some sort and then trying to go out of the country and mine or buy the items for this and getting it back into the U.S. is very unlikely and then you run into another problem for you to get the best damage capability out of this weapon you would have to get it into to the air a ground detination would be very bad but if you really wanted to do damage you would have to detinate it in the air above your target good luck getting that weapon in a big enought plan without questions to what it is.

TO DO LIST:


1. make an atomic bomb.

2. get my clothes from the dry cleaners.











becareful, cause its the average joe that makes these lol
;]

This is the ground lelvel condition exaplained here.This is not enough to make a nuclear bomb.Antother thing it is not at all distructive than a biological wepon.It can be easily caught and busted u to jail.try to make new things that are more distructive, repetation is always boring atomic bomb already. I am now making a new biological wepon that is 10 time distructive than an atomic bomb.

I dont know if anyone noticed but the image on this artical is for a Fusion bomb, not Fission. A Fission bomb does not usually have a secondary primer.

1. Make nuclear bomb
2. Start World War 3
3. ???
4. PROFIT!

get a life people, do you honestly think we would get instructions on here for all the so called leders to find??? its realy a set up so you have the best fireworks disply this year,be good

please all of you must be itellectually inept to seriously believe taht you can actually complete such a task. Run it Again.

@ Beast

You evidently don't seem to have read the article correctly - you mention that "[You are] attending Rolla University of Science and Technology for Aerospace Engineering"; however, nowhere in this article does it suggest or describe launching a hypothetical atomic bomb using aeronautical engineering. We can thus conclude that you are unqualified to make comments on this article and should keep your fanatical and somewhat rude opinions to your self. We are all very happy that you have taken chemistry and physics classes, maybe you should have taken english as well - then you would have been able to read the article correctly. :)

Oh come on guys.....dont build terror ...its realy funy to follow dese instrictions n make a bomb....lolz....

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