Timeline for answer to How to make nukes useless? by jwenting

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Jul 19, 2021 at 7:28	comment	added	jwenting		@LorenPechtel possibly, but irrelevant as the point was to show that nuclear weapons WILL appear once it becomes known they can exist. And not just nuclear weapons, it seems to be human nature to weaponise everything that can be.
Jul 18, 2021 at 16:45	comment	added	Loren Pechtel		You've got quite a half-life problem but Californium-252 could produce a throwable fission bomb.
Jul 18, 2021 at 5:31	comment	added	John		It was part of the hafnium weapon research and it basically consisted of a piece of paper say you might be able to theoretically build a 50lb hafnium bomb but it would be impossible for practical purposes and pointless. It later turned out the research the claim was based on was faked, so it would not have even been possible to build. But the story hung around forever.
Sep 17, 2019 at 5:41	comment	added	jwenting		@jdunlop like I said, there were plans but they never were implemented.
Sep 16, 2019 at 18:52	comment	added	jdunlop		Citation needed on the "nuclear hand grenade" comment. AFAIK, the smallest nuclear weapon ever created was the warhead for the Davy Crockett, clocking in at 23 kg. Below that weight (of fissile material and explosives), it gets really difficult to get an actual nuclear yield, so I can't imagine anyone ever even trying to develop a nuclear hand grenade, let alone making something soldiers could throw.
Sep 16, 2019 at 5:29	history	answered	jwenting	CC BY-SA 4.0