On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:31:05 -0400, George
wrote:


there's two kinds of smokes, ionization and photoelectric. Ionization
are the ones that use a small pellet of americium and once it loses its
radioactivity it's toast.

Am241 has a half life of 458 years so that really isn't much of an issue .

Please ignore my previous post, which you will probably see after this
one.

It looks like my bomb designing career is dead before it began.