It’s been said for years that anyone with enough initiative could figure out how to build a nuclear device just by surfing the Internet.
The Taliban has apparantly heard this idea as well, and attempted to put it into practice. However, they seem to be lacking the most important rule for information found on the Internet - some websites aren’t to be taken seriously. Especially websites with articles from a publication called “Journal of Irreproducible Results”. Especially when the article in question contains the lines:
“In next month’s column, we will learn how to clone your neighbor’s wife in six easy steps.”
and …
“Please remember that Plutonium, especially pure, refined Plutonium, is somewhat dangerous. Wash your hands with soap and warm water after handling the material, and don’t allow your children or pets to play in it or eat it.”
Is the “mass of chemical symbols and physics jargon” in reference to the joke article? Because it seems to be in simple laymen’s terms to me. Maybe Loyd knows less about science than an Afghani terrorist.
I wondered that myself, briefly, then decided it was one of those things that mankind was simply not meant to know, like whether God exists and what hotdogs are made of.
Actually, I just figured the original publication of the article probably had a heap of legit but irrelevant equations and such just thrown in. Then again, I could be completely wrong.