Originally posted by Raskolnikov

Originally posted by SLY
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Originally posted by Raskolnikov Simple slabs of lead can sheild radiation quite effectively and make such measures meaningless.

Measures are never going to be meaningless , no matter how much lead you use for shielding there will always be a significant reading difference in the measurements.

Not with sufficent (and decidedly crude) sheilding. A moderately sheilded pool of water is enough to make any radio emission negligable, and quite easily less than the natural background radiation of a given area.

And for the Mahatten project , that was more than half a century ago beside it was the first nuke in history ... No one could have guessed what it was.
But now , you can easily measure any site's radiation for nuclear activity confirmation.

We knew the Germans were trying to build the bomb, they knew that we were trying as well. That was no secret to anybody. The point is that such instalations aren't difficult to hide, especially now that the equipment neccessary has become smaller and more efficient and since there is little guesswork about how to make a nuclear bomb. It's purely a matter of having enough fissable material and some shaped charges to collaps that material. In fact, the shaped charges don't even need to be tested with Uranium or Plutonium making testing very easy to hide.

I know your point, Nukes can be easily hidden ... I didn't say no, but with such inspections it's impossible to hide such things cuz excess shielding and stuff like that could be very noticeable.