Does every teenager these days know how to plan and carry out a 50 megaton nuclear test by reading Wikipedia?
Not quite but closer than you might have thought, see
Not quite but closer than you might have thought, see
"though in such a case the limiting factor in developing such a weapon is not usually design difficulty but rather the procurement of material (enriched uranium)"
Results of the analysis are still classified (declassified document is redacted to death) but there are some accounts claiming that Dr. Teller uncovered that the design was viable and would produce a blast within order of magnitude of the “inspiration”.
If the account above is true it means anything from low single digit kiloton range to low double digit.
But I do not think today anybody would doubt that. The biggest obstacle to fission bomb making are materials themselves. Lack of public data to calibrate would mean nothing to terrorists (1 kiloton is still terror-inducing) and nation states have no problems in accessing nuclear scientists.
Fortunately, getting enough material is what makes this lunacy impractical.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24045858
For their role in V-J day, let's give belgium a hand!
Was that a bleakly-relevant joke? I mean, kudos to you - but jeez, 'dark' does't begin to cover it.