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No, but they wanted the first bomb to be simple enough in principle not to need any debugging.

People complained about privacy. Google addressed their complaint, changed their business practices, and took a small hit to revenue in the process. They estimate they'd lose 5%, o…

First you complain that Google takes away your privacy, and then when Google listens to your complaint and re-architects it's entire trillion dollar business to give you privacy, y…

And to prevent criticality problems while manufacturing them. You're machining a perfectly spherical plutonium core out of a LARGER chunk of plutonium.

>Does anyone understand what point is being made here? A cylindrical barrel is being fit over a fixed centre pin, rather than a pin inserted into a barrel. Makes sense when you rea…