asciilifeform: this Would Be Wrong from inca's pov, naturally.
asciilifeform: n00k worx perfectly fine to annul the advantage of columns of tanks, expensive jets, etc.
asciilifeform: the snake aspect is in the 'apocalyptic' meme
asciilifeform: and whole 'separation plant', 'go and machine perfect sphere out of pyrophoric poison', etc -- red herring.
asciilifeform: fissiles per se, in particular, have not been strictly necessary since perhaps 1970.
asciilifeform: from asciilifeform's reading of the histories, much of what usg did since '45 has been to create exaggerated impression of difficulty; and it was done at the cost of wasting ~own~ resources whenever possible, in stupendously massive way
asciilifeform: ( esp if you count the joules sunk into the oddball metallurgies, to make the pipes )
asciilifeform: traditional fissiles are dead end, from crackpot pov
asciilifeform: the whole 'art' of the n00k, is the hold-it-still-long-enuff
asciilifeform: esp. if you make clever use of the magnetic pulse for confinement, while the electric does the work
asciilifeform: i dare say not true in 20, considering that saharov-style compressive flux generator ( i.e. linear dynamo powered by trotyl ) can almost certainly substitute for those 20ton-equiv of pu
asciilifeform: in su this resulted simply in heavier rockets.
asciilifeform: most of the usg disinfo , just as literate folx always suspected, aimed to inflate the apparent cost.
asciilifeform: the other interesting bit, 'The minimum yield required to initiate the D/T gas in the H-bomb‟s boosted Primary or in boosted atomic weapons is only about 20 tons/0.02 kt.'
asciilifeform: the one of the few interesting claims - 'A D-T boosted, fractional crit A-bomb could use reactor-grade (25% Pu240) plutonium, instead of the normal 5.5% Pu240 Weapons-Grade Pu, with no degradation of yield.'
asciilifeform: the ugliest bit re rw, supposing the document is genuine rather than perlistic disinfo, is the text . srsly, odin gave moar brains to the pig than to this creature
asciilifeform: picture this chix, 'tell me, o usg oracle ! how to escape usg and my own skin'
asciilifeform: from rw omg111criminal googlings, 'palestine jobs' 'living in palestine' 'afghanistan jobs' 'living in afghanistan' 'kabul university' 'how to get rid of all your stuff' 'how to support anonymous' 'how to join anonymous' [ long list of usg linguist job postings in orcistans ]
asciilifeform: whoever was paid to write this item, must've had a real riot of a time.
asciilifeform: 'Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.'
asciilifeform: 'Post office employees can see to it that enemy mall is always delayed by one day or more, that it is put in wrong sacks, and so on.' << hey apparently my postman read this!11!
asciilifeform: also i will note, the ru works in this genre, are to slightly higher standard.
asciilifeform: passed around in kid w4r3z for two decades nao
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's a classic, was reprinted by, e.g., paladin
