How to Build an H-Bomb

Making and owning an H-bomb is the kind of challenge real Americans seek. Who wants to be a passive victim of nuclear war when, with a little effort, you can be an active participant? Bomb shelters are for losers. Who wants to huddle together underground eating canned Spam? Winners want to push the button themselves. Making your own H-bomb is a big step in nuclear assertiveness training -- it's called Taking Charge. We're sure you'll enjoy the risks and the heady thrill of playing nuclear chicken. Click the link to finish the story

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), May 02, 2001

Answers

I'm quite disappointed by this supposed recipe for H-bomb.

Having read the famous _The Progressive_ article on H-bombery in my local library a couple of decades ago, I can testify that at least two absolutely vital ingredients, Purina Dog Chow(R) and Hula Hoops(R), go entirely unmentioned in this current "recipe". Their omission can result only in embarrassing duds rather than glorious explosions.

BTW, one comforting aspect of _The Progressive_'s article was its explanation of how an industrial base capable of rapid precision construction of millions of Hula Hoops(R) was absolutely vital to successful H-bomb manufacture, and that, therefore, H-bombs could never be manufactured by small terrorist groups or by nations the size of Trinidad and Tobago or Tuvalu.

-- No Spam Please (nos_pam_please@hotmail.com), May 02, 2001.