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Iran could develop nuclear suicide bomb vests, claims JD Vance (www.9news.com.au)

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[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This has been explored to death, e.g. via the Demon Core experiments

If I'm not mistaken, in case of the demon core accidents, the reaction was always interrupted by the experimenter frantically separating the two halves, right? Doesn't mean it would detonate, but using it as an example of why it wouldn't doesn't seem to check out if I'm remembering correctly.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The point is that even bringing the parts together until a critical state was reached, the material did not explode. If the Demon Core were left in its critical state like that but otherwise undisturbed, it surely would have melted but would not have gone off like an atom bomb.