# Bush revoked nuke bomb development ban **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 26, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-revoked-nuke-bomb-development-ban/271219 "2004-10-26T11:14:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-revoked-nuke-bomb-development-ban/271219/41 "2004-10-26T15:07:13Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > I find myself curiously swayed by your verbositical adjectivicality. I can be very wrong in this yet I am under the extremely strong impression that you just used two non existing extensions to utterly normal English words. I also have to bring you the sad but true news that "you ain’t seen nothing yet " when it comes to my extreme well developped skills of rethorical use of a language. English is a very poor one asking a lot of words to get the message across and especially when comparing it to the possibilities offered by Arabic (and then I don’t even touch the possibilities offered by Classical Arabic). Salaam. A ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-revoked-nuke-bomb-development-ban/271219/42 "2004-10-26T15:09:02Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > DU??? > > What is that? I think he meant Depleted Uranium. Not really sure though. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-revoked-nuke-bomb-development-ban/271219/43 "2004-10-26T15:09:54Z")
> [@Aldebaran](#): > > I can be very wrong in this yet I am under the extremely strong impression that you just used two non existing extensions to utterly normal English words. > I also have to bring you the sad but true news that "you ain’t seen nothing yet " when it comes to my extreme well developped skills of rethorical use of a language. English is a very poor one asking a lot of words to get the message across and especially when comparing it to the possibilities offered by Arabic (and then I don’t even touch the possibilities offered by Classical Arabic). > > Salaam. A I suggest the fewer pissing matches in here the better. English vs. Arabic is the last hijack we need. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-revoked-nuke-bomb-development-ban/271219/44 "2004-10-26T15:10:34Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > DU??? > > What is that? Depleted Uranium I would guess. Though you can hardly single out the US for using it. NATO/France developed it to penetrate Soviet tank armour. ---
**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-revoked-nuke-bomb-development-ban/271219/45 "2004-10-26T17:19:31Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > Does anyone else here really think that anyone can make a man-portable nuclear weapon? One that doesn’t actually look like a nuclear weapon? God, I hope not. I’d like to think that people are more rational than that. It can be done. What does a nuclear weapon “look like”? Some small US nuclear weapons, like the SADMs, were intentionally made larger and heavier so that they required two people to transport and emplace. The W54 only weighed 51 pounds. ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-revoked-nuke-bomb-development-ban/271219/46 "2004-10-26T17:30:46Z")
> [@mks57](#): > > It can be done. What does a nuclear weapon “look like”? Typically, they’re made out of a futuristic-looking shiny material, often in a vague trunk-like shape. The surface of the material will have grooves and indentations that don’t serve any apparent purpose, and there will always be a mechanism for accessing an inner control panel: typically, you have to push a button or unscrew a highly-polished canister. Inside the control panel is a button, along with a set of LED digit displays for the timer. There are exposed wires connecting all these components–no more then two colors may be used for all the wiring (this is common to all electrically actuated exposives, of course). The detonator may be exposed in that panel, or you may have to unscrew another canister to get to it. Duh! _Everyone_ knows what a nuke looks like! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-revoked-nuke-bomb-development-ban/271219/47 "2004-10-26T19:45:05Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > a set of LED digit displays for the timer Clarification, a **red** digital display. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-revoked-nuke-bomb-development-ban/271219/48 "2004-10-26T19:49:08Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Clarification, a **red** digital display. 🙂 That speeds up when you cut the wrong wire. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-revoked-nuke-bomb-development-ban/271219/49 "2004-10-26T19:52:41Z")
To be entirely clear, it also speeds up when you cut the _correct_ wire . . . but then stops at “001.” “007” if you’re suave and British. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-revoked-nuke-bomb-development-ban/271219.md?page=2)