3 mg of U-235 is 0.003/235 or 1.3e-5 moles of U-235, which contains 6e23 x 1.3e-5, or 7.8e18 atoms. Each one, when fissioned, turns out about 200 MeV of energy, so that’s 1.6e21 MeV = 6.1e5 kT = 61 kg TNT equivalent. That’s enough to demolish a small-sized office building,
95% pure U-235 is sold by the Haqqani Network in Islamabad, I can make a zipper and a tamper. Polonium and Beryllium are not hard to get. Lead and Gold foil are easy to obtain.
61 kg of TNT can make a small building fly if it is correctly positioned.
We want to avoid airspace used by planes near the Baltimore Airport.
A “Management” company may be able to manage their trajectory so they land safely on a vacant strip at BWI.
My outlined detonation might be seen as ‘legal” in some degree by Hammurabi eye for an eye guy. But under Maryland law only their actions would be seen as “perfectly legal”. How high they will fly in the sky 80 feet or 93 feet is all the same either way. They get what they gave. I’m 80, lived in my home 10 years … eviction = me dead.
Aviation buffs would never imperil a plane landing or taking off. So care will be taken, with radar, to assure no plane is harmed.
I am not such an idealist as to imagine that any other landlords will take a lesson. Jerry Schwartz who runs Schwartz Family Holdings from Australia (a place I have many friends) may choose to assert his right as owner of the building I live in to manage the apartment I live in. Jerry is a gentle, and very nice person. He has never harmed anybody, and will not be convinced that it is necessary to do that now.
Cabover Drive Building Could Fly Through the Air
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