The Nuke Truck

Nice upload fed I'm still not paying my taxes

Remember, the Pulitzer is the second highest award a journalist can receive. The highest comes from the CIA.

Every time Jeff returns, his stories somehow get stranger Like, first it was “my college is a Soviet ghetto,” then it was “I got sent to a Government research facility,” then it was “My new apartment is toxic to non-insect life,” to finally “I drove around some nuke detectors for an internship” Like what the heck man

The only thing worse than a black SUV approaching that you don't recognize is a black SUV approaching that you DO recognize

this is what the CIA saw on Iraqi satellite footage thinking the trucks were Saddams WMDs.

nice helium you got their, be a shame is someone huffed the equivalent of a months wage in the time it takes to draw a taser.

Years ago I picked up a Liquid helium compressor & pump, a bunch of MASSIVE butterfly valves 12-18" diameters, a rotary feedthrough,a radiation chopper, an RF plasma power supply, a pressure transducer, temp probes, a high voltage transformer and an e-beam evaporator in seperate government auction purchases over a few months. All for various different reasons, It was only once I had all of it sitting next to eachother I realized I accidentally bought almost everything neccesary to get a handful of government agencies at my door. Whoopsies. - Sidenote, handling the compressor was terrifying, I'm not a fan of dissassembling something with a 500 PSI cannister that can cause life threatening burns on the skin as well as your internals if inhaled. I thought about keeping it but I watched final destination growing up and I'm certain that thing would have leaked after a few years on a shelf and blasted me in the face. If my designated FBI agent is reading this, I already parted most of it out - you should know that already.

You know there are actually nuke transporter trucks out there. They have solid tires, various undisclosed deployable weapons designed to continue to fight even if all crew are incapacitated, and the back door is made of 12 to 18 inches of mystery armor.

So you're the jeff with 10 nukes from that chart, i knew it!

Ah yes, the liquid helium SUV. I'm sure the conversation in that van can never be serious.

If what I perceived to be a hostile fed smiled and waved at me I would be absolutely terrified.

jeff please stop gangstalking me

Only a fed would say something like "a good government agency"

Only a 40mm airdefense cannon? Weak shit we use 75mm in this house.

At 4:30, your example of a "boosted nuclear bomb" is a photo of the Mark 18, which is actually an unboosted weapon. That warhead was tested in 1952 as Ivy Mike, and at 500 kT, it was the largest pure-fission explosion that the US ever conducted (second only to the UK's Orange Herald device). It used a 92-point implosion system with multiple concentric layers of levitated natural Uranium tamper to rapidly compress a hollow sphere composed of more than one bare-sphere critical mass of U235 (60kg!) to such a high degree of super-criticality that it achieved roughly 50% fission of its U235 atoms even without boosting (versus 6.5% for the Mark 3 "Fat Man" dropped on Nagasaki). In contrast, modern boosted fission primaries are able to wring almost 40 kT of yield from up to 80% fission of a tiny ~3 kg Plutonium pit that might otherwise produce only 1 kT of yield due to milder super-criticality. In such small pits, the reaction rate doesn't grow as quickly (milder super-criticality), and the burst of neutrons from fusion of the DT boost gas helps the reaction skip several generations of rate growth so that it can achieve a high reaction rate prior to disassembly; that's a game-changer in minimum size fission primaries. However, in the case of maximum-size fission weapons like the Mark-18, the reaction already grows very quickly, so the boost provides less relative benefit, and the greatest challenge to achieving higher efficiencies is that there's an enormous volume of U235 to be reacted, and by the time even a small fraction of that has reacted, everything is diverging at relativistic speeds. It's not clear whether boosting would have been able to improve the yield of a large fission bomb like the Mark-18. The British Orange Herald device was sorta-kinda boosted, although with LiD, which is harder to kindle and less neutronic, and Orange Herald delivered only slightly more yield from twice as much U235, implying significantly lower efficiency.

JEFF IS PART OF THE GANGSTALKERS

Most tritium in nuclear weapons is used to initiate the thermonuclear portion of the detonation; Lithium-6 is more stable and readily fissions when hit with a neutron to form tritium and helium, where tritium can be used for more fusion reactions. I happen to study nuclear physics as a hobby.

bro thinks he's skipper

Did something similar with an RF truck and can confirm that „smile and wave“ is pretty effective ;)

At first, I thought this was gonna talk about how the US transports their nukes in trucks. (Which they actually do)