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So you have a dream to become a one-person nuclear power. I mean, it’s the kind of dream that’s less heart-warming family drama and more “Starring: John Lithgow.” But I like John Lithgow, so that’s okay.Let’s try and crack this nut.First thing for the peanut gallery: Yeah, this answer discusses in some very broad, “Anybody with intermediate Googling skills and level-101 grasps of chemistry, physics, and engineering,” strokes how to build a nuke “from scratch.”That might alarm you. “What if the terrorists find this?! You’re helping the terrorists!”Two things:If the best that “the terrorists” can do is scan Quora for advice from a random non-expert about the construction of weapons of mass destruction, I’m not too worried about their capacity to follow through. More to the point, I’m not a physicist, chemist, or engineer (nuclear or otherwise), so following my advice too closely on this matter is probably not a thing anybody should do with great seriousnessIt’s going to become very apparent very quickly that this isn’t something you ought to be worried about any Joe Q. Terrorist pulling off. If anything, I hope by the end of this answer that you’re relieved by the implausibility of a rogue actor ever seeing this through to fruition.Last thing is that this answer is very long by Internet standards (7,300 words, so 35-ish minutes of reading), so if you just want the top-line figures before browsing off to somewhere else, here:Nuke construction: $111.3 million for the first, $9.95 million for each thereafterICBM construction: $200 million in research and development, $40 million per missile (optimistic)Supporting facility construction: $15 millionLand acquisition: $416,000 to $1.2 millionOdds of success: Infinitesimal.Are we good? Great.The first thing I’m going to tell you to do on my quest to get intrusively investigated and interrogated by multiple government agencies is to move to (and/or conquer) Australia.That’s gotta be, like six agencies right there.For starters, you’re going to need a lot of land – as will become obvious as this answer evolves – and ideally land that’s far away from prying eyes. Australia has that in spades. Of the world’s largest island’s 7.69 million square kilometres of land, about 40 percent of it is classified as desert, and another about-as-much percent is suitable for not much more than animal grazing.So, granted, the land you’ll be acquiring is probably inhospitable, but hey, it’s probably for the best that you build a clandestine nuke and rocket complex out in the middle of nowhere. It will delay your being discovered (as you will be).We’ll come back to figuring out how much land you’ll need towards the end of the answer, but it’s tied to the next consideration for basing your operation in Australia: it has one-third of the world’s proven uranium reserves, the vast majority of which has been unmined.Score! Right?Well, not really, because the Australian government has a pretty damned good idea of where these proven reserves are, and it isn’t about to let just anybody show up and start uranium prospecting – to say nothing of the fact that Western Australia, where many of your barren land/prospective uranium deposits exist, has banned future uranium prospecting/mine development.Moreover, over 95 percent of Australia’s uranium output comes from three existing mines.So what we need to do is......Oh, I’m sorry, is this putting you off? Are you asking, “Why can’t I just buy the uranium I need from someone who’s already mining it?”Okay, let’s discuss.Source: Popular Science (Mar, 1950) via Modern MechanixIn order to build a nuclear bomb, you need “enriched” uranium. That’s a simple way of saying that you need to use uranium that is 90% or greater made up of the U-235 isotope, whereas natural uranium is 99.2% U-238, which is useless for making things go boom.Source: World Nuclear AssociationU-235 occurs naturally at a ratio of about 0.72% in uranium that’s mined from the ground, but concentrations can vary. Put another way, if you held one kilogram of really pure uraninite, you might be holding maybe six grams of U-235 – the equivalent weight of an overstuffed tablespoon of sugar (Important note: U-235 and sugar are not interchangeable ingredients for baking and/or nuclear purposes.).The bomb that exploded over Hiroshima used 64 kilograms of uranium, 51 of which was U-235 – 8,500 times as much as you might ever otherwise casually hold.Now, without severely flagging my internet search behavior, I can’t find anyone that commercially sells an appreciable amount of uraninite to start making price comparisons (probably for the best). You can get three grams of refined uranium from United Nuclear for $69. At that price, you would be paying $23,000 per kilogram. To get enough of their uranium to enrich 52 kilograms of U-235 to build a working replica of Little Boy (getting an extra 1 kilo to ensure critical mass), you would need to spend at least $166.1 million (for the minimum 90% enrichment level required to achieve weapon-grade uranium).Of course, that would have been assuming that their uranium was 0.72% U-235. They note that their uranium is only 0.31% U-235 isotope, so you need at least 2.3 times the amount of higher grade uranium, or $382 million worth.Hmm... This is getting pretty expensive pretty quickly. Maybe getting large quantities of pure uranium from third parties isn’t the way to go.Alternately, you could try to create some kind of front company and start purchasing industrial quantities of triuranium octoxide (AKA, “yellowcake”), U3O8, the form of uranium following mining operations and processing that is sold for further enrichment.Its market price at the time of this writing is $45.20 per kilogram. It’s 84.8% uranium by mass, and we’re assuming 0.7% U-235; so to get 52 kilograms of U-235 from 90% enriched uranium, you’re going to need 9,100 kilograms of U3O8, which at market prices is $411,300.Now that’s much more reasonable!But, of course, the problem we run into is that purchasing that much tasty cake (important note: Do not eat yellowcake, for it is not tasty) is that you’re going to get noticed. Your front company will be scrutinized, probably very quickly discovered to be a shell, and your dream will be over.But, you know, $411,300... Yeah, that looks like a good deal. However, let’s go back to our hypothetical mining operation.See, we’re not trying to establish a commercially viable uranium mine. Large, corporate prospectors are looking for deposits that will net them thousands upon thousands of tonnes of U3O8 that can be turned around for a profit. They’re not looking at the small, isolated deposits (less than 100 tonnes) which won’t recover their operational costs.These deposits, however, would be plenty sufficient for our – er, your, totally your – needs.So let’s say that poking around on the fringes of some of Western Australia or Queensland’s known uranium deposits (tell the government you’re looking for gold or copper) you and your team of geoscientists (cost/person: $90-130,000 per year, depending on experience) identify a probable uranium deposit area of 50 tonnes U3O8 at a depth between 100 to 150 metres. You ask a couple of mining engineers (cost/person: $75-150,000 per year, depending on experience) what they think is the best form of extraction, and if you’re lucky they might recommend in situ leaching (ISL).Basically, rather than blasting out a giant hole or digging a bunch of shafts with expensive equipment and having to deal with a lot of waste product, you can sit some wells over key deposit areas and gradually recover the uranium resin at the surface.On average, ISL mining costs between $65-$110 per kilogram of U380 extracted; so for your baseline 8,800 kilograms, you might be looking at $591,500 to $1,001,000.“Hey!” you say. “That’s a lot more than $411,300!”Yes, yes it is. I know how to math. But consider that you’re getting the added security of controlling your supply chain. If you end up needing more uranium (hint: you will, as will become apparent soon), then you can leach it out.Moreover, just because the market price for the quantity of U3O8 we’d be seeking to acquire is less than our estimated production value, that doesn’t take into account any other duties or fees associated with importing and storing such a large volume of a highly controlled and monitored substance. Add all those costs together, and you’d probably be in the same financial ballpark (and, also, on so many regulators’ and agencies’ radars).And, of course, $1 million is still much less than trying to get good uraninite from another provider, so you’re still in the black.As another side note, you did want to make a nuclear weapon from scratch, which to me sounds like mining should be involved anyway to stay in the spirit of the question.However, that $1 million is only estimated from the mine’s operating costs. We still have to build the mining complex. Most citations I can find for ISL mines’ capital expenditures are between $20-40 million, with some outliers in the $50 million range. In this hypothetical, we’re not working with a particularly large deposit, and so we might get away with construction costs at the bottom end of that range, if not slightly less.Given that, the total cost of the infrastructure to extract the needed quantity of U3O8 for your hobby nuke may be fairly estimated in the $15-20 million range, depending on just how geographically dispersed your deposit is and how much uranium you opt to pull out of the ground (again, roughly $100,000 per tonne). That cost includes the extraction and the process of refining the uranium slurry into yellowcake.In order to further process your yellowcake into enriched goodness, you’re going to need to do some chemistry (although you’ve already been pumping a lot of various acids deep underground), with the end product being uranium hexafluoride (UF6), a gaseous form of uranium that can be used to separate the U235 you need.As noted in the introduction, I am not a chemist. In fact, Chemistry is the only course I have ever failed in my life (if you don’t count my repeating Biology to get a final passing grade). You’re going to need to hire some actual chemists to help you through this process (cost/person: $60-110,000 per year per chemist, depending on experience). I’m just here to give you a sense of just how much chemistry you’re going to need to do (hint: a lot), and how much that chemistry might cost you (hint: a lot).So, first the yellowcake needs to take a bath in nitric acid in order to produce uranyl nitrate. You could either buy the nitric acid directly (pretty expensive to get a 100% solution at industrial quantities), or you could buy a bunch of nitrogen dioxide (not as expensive) to make some yourself.To process 9,100 kilograms of yellowcake, you’ll need 5,500 (-ish) kilograms of nitric acid. To make 5,500 (-ish... You know what? Just add “-ish” after all of these numbers) kilograms of nitric acid, you’ll need 6,000 kilograms of nitrogen dioxide (and a lot of water, which you should already have as part of your leaching operation).Scanning online, because this answer has already wrecked my search history, it looks like 50-60 litre canisters of nitrogen dioxide can be had for between $200-$350 each, of which you would need between 70 and 90; so that would cost somewhere between $14-32,000, depending on the supplier, canister quantity, and grade.Having made your nitric acid (consult your chemists), you’ll be able to make some 12,800 kilograms of uranyl nitrate (with just shy of 1,000 kilograms of nitrogen dioxide byproduct for possible capture and resale, maybe).You’ll then need about 1,600 kilograms of ammonia (cost: $1-2,000, although you’ll have a lot of this on hand from your ISL mine) and a lot of water (again, should be sorted) to make ammonium diuranate from the uranyl nitrate. That then gets a 65 kilogram hydrogen bath (cost: $500) to extract 8,750 kilograms of uranium dioxide.Hey, this is sounding pretty cheap! Well, keep reading – saved the best for last.In order to convert uranium dioxide to uranium tetraflouride, you’ll need 2,600 kilograms of hydrogen fluoride, which you should be able to extract from hydrofluoric acid, which sells for around $100 per kilogram. So, cost: $260,000.Ouch – and it gets worse.To get your 10,200 kilograms of uranium tetraflouride to that last step of gaseous goodness, you’ll need 1,250 kilograms of fluorine gas.Yeah, uh, this stuff is hard to track down (for probably good reasons), not even so much for its role in this illicit process than because it’s just generally, ridiculously toxic and corrosive. It’s usually sold in a diluted state in order to be transported safely, which might be the best you’re able to do (consult your chemists).The only citation I could find for its cost in pure form was $1,900 per kilogram, but that could be way off. Still, barring any other information, 1,250 kilograms of fluorine gas will run you $2.38 million.That seems prohibitive.Alternately, a number of plants engaged in high volumes of UF6 production appear to make fluorine gas on site, which is probably the most cost effective route, and then directly injecting the gas into process to minimize the risks of exposure. Its onsite production would also allow you to make large quantities of hydrogen fluoride, potentially reducing your costs further.The process begins with acidspar, a very high grade of fluorspar, and sulphuric acid. This produces hydrogen fluoride, which is then mixed with potassium fluoride to make potassium bifluoride. The potassium bifluoride then undergoes electrolysis to produce fluorine gas (and other things).Acidspar costs around $350 per metric tonne, and sulphuric acid $30 per kilogram. So already you might be thinking, “Oh yeah, way cheap!”Yeah, well, you’re going to need a lot of this stuff.In order to get 2,600 kilograms of hydrogen fluoride, you’ll need 5,000 kilograms of acidspar ($1,750) and 6,400 kilograms of sulphuric acid ($192,000), which you’ll also have a lot of as part of your mining operation. That’s a savings of $66,250.Now, to do the process again to get 1,250 kilograms of fluorine gas, you need 2,500 kilograms of acidspar ($875), 3,200 kilograms of sulphuric acid ($96,000), and 3,800 kilograms of potassium fluoride, which goes for $5 per kilogram ($19,000). That comes to a grand total of $115,875, for a savings of $2.26 million.So, yeah, relatively speaking it’s “way cheap.”Whichever way you go to get your fluorine gas, at the end of the process you’ll have 11,400 kilograms of UF6 that you can use to produce enriched uranium.Oh, you’ll also have accumulated about 2,800 litres of wastewater that’ll need to go somewhere, as well as 5,200 kilograms of ammonium nitrate that, if you don’t handle properly, will more-than flatten your operation in a horrific conventional explosion before you even get to your nuclear bomb. Perhaps you could try to recover some (like, a pitiful fraction) of your expenses by selling it as fertilizer.And, of course, all of that chemistry description totally glossed over the kind of specialised equipment and laboratory space that you would need to safely undertake the extraction process. It’s not exactly something that you can do in your backyard with some rusty pipes and glass beakers you bought second-hand. You also need people to help you with this, since moving around industrial quantities of hazardous chemicals by yourself is basically an easy way to ensure a slow, gruesome death.It’s hard to come up with a good figure on this, because it requires knowledge about specialty equipment that is difficult to track down. Scanning around some comparable industrial production sites, I think $15 million initial capital investment is a reasonable estimate, followed by hiring 8 to 12 staff to assist (cost/person: $50-110,000 per year, depending on experience).Okay, so now you have to get on with enrichment. This will require the work of many, very specialised centrifuges. How many? Well, obviously that depends both on how quickly you want to process the uranium and the level of enrichment you want. The more centrifuges you have, the faster you’ll have enriched uranium; but the higher the enrichment, that’s more work per centrifuge (and or more centrifuges again).That’s the thing: We (you – still all you) haven’t actually settled on an enrichment level. 90% is the baseline for “weapon-grade” uranium, but maybe you want to go for higher levels of enrichment to minimize the chance that your bomb is a dud.In the enrichment world, these and related factors are fed into a complex formula that determines the separative work units (SWU) required to achieve the desired product. In brief, calculating the SWU takes into account the U235 content of the uranium going into the process, the product’s target enrichment level, and the waste product’s enrichment level.Doing some math, getting 52 kilograms of between 90 and 99 percent enriched U235 with average levels of depleted uranium will require between 11,750 and 13,250 SWU.Modern centrifuges produce between 50 and 100 SWU per year, although some next-generation centrifuges have demonstrated the potential of producing upwards 350 SWU per year. However, in practice, you can’t just divide the total SWU required by the average centrifuge production (in this case, 13,250 / 100 = 133), because a single centrifuge isn’t going to be able to take on the work of concentrating the U235. Centrifuges are arranged in cascades – and then several cascades are linked in a series – to allow more of the feed material to progress through the enrichment process.So in practice, you’ll probably need ten or twenty times the number of centrifuges you might otherwise roughly calculate to achieve your production target within a year – so, in your case, 1,300-2,600.Centrifuges are some of the most precisely engineered machines on the planet, and they’re built from rare materials. That is to say that they’re not something you’re going to be able to whip up and churn out in your tool shed, and it also means that the number of companies capable of making centrifuges is very small, and their exports heavily regulated and monitored.Also worth noting is that the commercial enrichers appear to hire between 6-10 staff for every 1,000 SWU, so you’re looking at a possible staff of 60-130 technicians to make sure your facility stays up and running (cost/person: $60-120,000 per year, depending on experience).You could try and take the route of Iraq, Iran and North Korea and hire the foreign expertise required to build your own centrifuges based on copies of existing technology, but your cost margins (and your final product) probably aren’t going to be to dissimilar from buying centrifuges outright.And yes, I’m kind of skirting the issue of how much all of this will cost, because we’re hitting a lot of variables. We’re also hitting the problem of the fact that the companies that make centrifuges don’t (that I can tell) have public information on how much their centrifuges cost per unit, because why would they? Not only are they private companies, but they can count the number of potential clients on one hand (not including their own operations), and they’re talking to them directly.So I have no idea how much a centrifuge – much less 100 or 1,000 – could cost you, either in purchasing existing technology or (very crudely) creating your own by tapping available expertise.However, some researchers have taken a crack at creating cost curves for capital expenses needed for the construction of new enrichment plants – which we can assume would include the centrifuges – and, surprise, it doesn’t get cheap just because you’re making a small-scale facility. Based on their work and our inputs, you’re looking at capital costs between $16-32 million.By the way, we have to address another important cost component: How are you powering all of this? I mean, you can’t just plug your uranium mining, extraction, and enrichment facilities into the grid and expect everything to be A-OK. You’re looking at energy consumption levels on par with a small town. Your enrichment facility alone will require in the neighbourhood of 1,000 MWh in a year to operate (based on 60-65 kWh per SWU).Here again is another reason to base yourself in Australia: great solar potential.Building your own solar farm, though, is going to be expensive, but much less than buying wholesale. Construction of utility-level solar farms costs between $2-3 million per MW of generation, and if we assume 5 MW will suit your whole operation’s needs, then you might expect to spend $10-15 million.Anyway, once you have your weapon-grade uranium, you have to turn it into a weapon. In all likelihood, you’re going to be limited to a gun-type weapon, as most modern nuclear weapons use plutonium-239 (which we’re not going to make, since that’s a byproduct of a nuclear reaction, and we’re not going to be building any nuclear reactors today, as that tends to end poorly) and other materials that, frankly, are going to be beyond you to acquire.Moreover, you’re going to have to consult with physicists and engineers to optimize your warhead’s design, given that the gun-type is pretty inefficient. Only 2% of the uranium in the Hiroshima bomb actually underwent fission.On paper, if all 52 kilograms of your U235 underwent complete fission, the resulting energy release would be close to 1 megaton of TNT equivalent (66 Hiroshimas). However, you’re highly unlikely to achieve complete fission of all your U235 in the absence of other materials like Pu-239 and a very complex warhead design.Still, if you could improve on the Little Boy design that’s been the inspiration for this article to get even 10% of your U235 to undergo fission, then you’d be in the ballpark of the low range of currently deployed warhead yields.There is precedent for attempting the more complex implosion-type warhead with a pure U235 core, though. That was the principle behind the Mk-18, which was the largest pure fission bomb produced by the US. It had a U235 core that weighed 60 kilograms and delivered a yield of 500 kilotons (about 42% of its full potential). However, that amount of pure U235 in that configuration made the design was incredibly unstable, and extra precautions had to be taken to ensure there wasn’t an accidental explosion.And, you know, when designing nuclear bombs, “unstable” and “accidental” aren’t words you want to string together in the description.So, again, you’re going to want to consult a fair few physicists to get your design right (and stable).On top of this, you’re also going to have to somehow create or purchase the high explosives needed to set off the chain reaction (purchase cost: $200-400 per kilogram and all the red flags).But where you really have a problem is that it sounds like you want to be able to stick your nuke on top of a missile. That’s going to require you to be able to miniaturize the bomb, which requires a lot of time and expertise (just ask Iran and North Korea).How much will the R&D and final development cost you? No idea, but it’s probably fair to assume that your budget here will be an additional 20 to 25 percent of your overall spending just on the bomb design, and then again for the bomb’s miniaturizing. So let’s do the math, using the upper-end estimates:Uranium mining and extraction: $20 millionUF6 conversion facility: $15 millionU3O8 to UF6 conversion: $0.35 millionUranium enrichment facility: $32 millionSubtotal: $67.4 millionBomb design R&D: $16.9 millionBomb miniaturization: $16.9 millionSubtotal: $101.2 million+10% buffer and inflation: $10.1 millionGrand total: $111.3 millionOf course, keep in mind that once your capital and research expenses for the first bomb are sorted, for each subsequent bomb (assuming one per year):Uranium mining and extraction: $1 millionU3O8 to UF6 processing: $0.35 million raw, $800,000/year staffUranium enrichment: $7.6 million/yearElectricity: $200,000/year (operation and maintenance, unless you want to pay yourself for your own power).Grand total: $9.95 millionAnd I’m sure a lot of people are looking at that figure and saying, “Hang on, the Manhattan Project cost the equivalent of upwards $30 billion in today’s currency. How are you building a nuke from scratch for less than one percent of that?”Well, yeah, of course the Manhattan Project cost an insane amount of money to build the first nuclear bomb. Nobody had built one before. All the steps that we can kind of take for granted now had to be invented back then. Nobody was mining uranium or making plutonium in industrial quantities – they were super rare materials. The computing power they needed to test their theories required office-block like facilities. Literal towns had to be built from scratch to house the scientists, their technicians, and their families in order to maintain the utmost secrecy.It’s pretty easy to see how the government would have dropped a lot of money in that kind of circumstance. Today, though, a guy like me can come along, take a few days to browse the existing literature in order to pretend to sound like he knows what he’s talking about, get some price points on the now-global, highly industrialized nuclear fuel economy, and go from there.Moreover, after the US government dropped those billions of dollars for the first bomb, they didn’t have to spend nearly as much per bomb thereafter. The fact that the US government spent as much as it did on nuclear weapons from the 40s onwards was due to the sheer number of weapons they were building, testing, and refining, but the cost per bomb was pretty well reduced.The US government has spent close to $9 trillion on its nuclear weapons program since the beginning of the Manhattan Project. Of that amount, an estimated $640 billion was spent on nuclear weapon construction. If we exclude the Manhattan Project from that figure and focus just on the subsequent production of some 70,000 nuclear warheads, then the cost per bomb comes out to about $9.2 million.And, uh, I did that back-of-the-napkin calculation after I came up with my own ~$10 million/bomb production run, and it kind of freaked me out.So yeah, it cost the US government orders of magnitude to create its first nuclear bomb from scratch than it would some other upstart. That’s how technology works: somebody puts in a lot of money and effort to get the prototype into the market, and everybody else copies it for much less.The same goes for intercontinental ballistic missiles, which is the second part of this question.We’re going to copy the Topol-M, Russia’s mobile ICBM. Why? Because once the authorities figure out what you’re doing and descend on your weapons complex en masse, none of them are going to engage in a high speed chase with a mobile nuclear weapons platform. It’ll be the most bad-ass getaway of all time.Also, it’s a lot cheaper to buy and repair an old, military heavy truck than to dig and maintain a missile silo (average cost: $15 million). In fact, I was able to find the trucks used by the Soviets to haul the Topol-M for sale online for around $200,000. Add another $100,000 for repairs and upgrades, and boom: you have your launch platform.Easy. Onto the rocket.Hire lots of help.Like, you need to. Rocket science is hard, as these Quora answers very capably point out. You can’t just grab a metal tube, stuff it full of propellant, give it a kiss and send it on its merry, fiery way.“Hold on,” you might be thinking. “You just radically – really radically – simplified the process for creating a nuclear bomb, and now you’re putting a missile into the ‘too hard’ basket?”...Yeah, kind of. Balancing equations for chemical reactions and deriving quantities and prices required is monkey’s work. There are calculators for that. Even though I missed a lot of important details in describing the enrichment process, it’s still a pretty straightforward process as far as the big steps go. Chemistry is straightforward like that (again: failed it).But rockets?Keep in mind that it only took about a decade to turn nuclear weapons from theoretical to industrial manufacturing. Rocketry, meanwhile, despite decades of experience, still challenges even the most well resourced start-up programs (eg, Iran, North Korea). Even the Pentagon is having trouble coming up with a cost figure for replacing the Minuteman III missile, which hasn’t been manufactured since the 1990s, with estimates between $62 and $100 billion, owing to gaps in understanding of the facilities needed, and the potential labor and materiel costs. The middle ground estimate of $85 billion covers $718 million for related construction, $22.6 billion for research and development, and $61.5 billion for procurement and maintenance.So, yeah, it’s going to be difficult to say with a great degree of certainty just how much this side of the project will run you. But we can give it a very crude, ballpark shot.Another reason for choosing the Topol-M is because we know a fair bit about its properties by its civilian-modified version, the Start-1, which basically kept the Topol-M’s three stages intact while replacing the warhead component with a fourth stage (you’ll swap back to the original).Now, you’ll probably end up using some kind of ammonium perchlorate composite propellant (APCP), but just a quick, basic scan of the available literature on APCPs reveals multiple possible formulas that could achieve the results you need to get your ballistic missile to go intercontinental, each of which would have variable costs to produce from raw materials.Now, parsing the annual stakeholder reports from American Pacific Corporation (AMPAC), the sole producer of ammonium perchlorate in North America, it looks like ammonium perchlorate goes for about $30 per kilogram. Whether they or someone similar will sell it to you in mass quantities is doubtful, but making it yourself doesn’t appear to be any less expensive, so we’re going to leave that figure there.For most solid fuel rockets, around 90 percent of the rocket’s total mass is fuel. For the sake of illustration, here’s a depiction of the component percentages for the Atlas V.Source: Tory Bruno (@torybruno), President and CEO United Launch AllianceIn our case, that would give us about 40,600 kilograms of fuel which, if it were all ammonium perchlorate, would cost around $1.22 million. However, given that the final propellant requires more than just ammonium perchlorate, the final cost of getting all the materials required for your preferred APCP could be significantly higher than that. For budgeting purposes, it might be safe to tack on another 50% of the base cost for $1.83 million.Knowing that the maximum warhead weight your Topol-M knock-off can carry is 1,200 kilograms, that leaves you with 3,300 kilograms of structural construction materials, which will be a mix of metals and carbon composites, and will be different for each stage.The casings for the three stages of the Minuteman III, for example, are carbon steel, titanium, and fibreglass. For a commercial comparison, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 uses aluminium-lithium, and the Ariane 5 a mix of aluminium, steel, and carbon fibre reinforced plastic in its various components.And while we could probably look up the base costs for each of these materials (steel and fibreglass are cheap, titanium is not), it’s not going to be enough to just multiply the material by the weight and come up with an estimate. They behave very differently under the kinds of stresses that you might expect (and some that you might not) from launching something into space. You need precision engineering, or else your missile is more likely to explode on launch (a bad thing when carrying a nuclear warhead) rather than go anywhere; and the tools and expertise are going to rapidly inflate the cost of construction well above the cost of the raw materials.Additionally, you need a battery, and guidance and control systems, all of which need to be able to survive a launch and function under extreme circumstances. Those are expensive components.The other thing to keep in mind with the cost of rocket development is the research and development phase. This is much more expensive than what we estimated for the bomb design R&D because, ideally, each component of your rocket will undergo rigorous testing – often pushing components to the point of failure. That means you’re not just building one missile from one set of blue prints, but effectively several missiles by building, testing, breaking, and rebuilding components multiple times. So before you’ve even built a single rocket, you might have spent the equivalent of four or five rockets in development.I mean, you could skip this step if you’re supremely confident in your engineering and machinery teams, but it’s most definitely not recommended.So... We’re not really any closer to an estimate, are we?Each Peacekeeper missile cost around $50 million in today’s dollars. Each Minuteman III around $40 million. The Pentagon wants to buy its new missiles for around $66 million each. However, commercial launches of much, much larger rockets than your backyard ICBM (eg, Ariane 5 and Falcon 9) cost around $60 million each; and we have to assume a fair chunk of that has to be profit, or else the commercial space industry would collapse.If you’re not building your ICBM on an industrial level, maybe you can achieve some cost savings by not having to construct a massive facility and employ a large staff; but if you were able to keep the budget per missile below $40 million (which would put R&D upwards of $200 million), I would be impressed.All of this brings us back to a critical question asked at the start of this answer: How much land are you going to need to build your mining/nuke/missile complex?If you’ve been paying attention: a lot.Cycling back through some of the example facilities I’ve used in this answer:Heathgate Resources is currently leasing 30,000 hectares (300 square kilometres) of land in South Australia for its Beverley Mine operation, which on a map looks like this:Source: South Australian Resources Information GatewayThe total proven and inferred U3O8 deposit in the Beverley Mine area is just shy of 80,000 tonnes, so significantly larger than the hypothetical deposit for this answer (100 tonnes, to refresh your memory).However, just because our deposit is 1/800 the size of this real world example, it would be wrong to assume that a 375,000 square meter plot would be sufficient. You need room to explore and make sure that you’ve captured the full extent of the deposit.So, a bit arbitrarily, let’s estimate our needed plot as being [math]\frac{1}{\sqrt{800}}[/math] of the Beverley Mine, which comes out to 1,060 hectares (10.6 square kilometres) of land. That should be plenty sufficient to start with.The good thing about in situ recovery mining is that you can still use the surface for other developments, as the individual wells and boreholes don’t take up too much space and can extract the deposit from a distance. Of course, you don’t want to build too close to the approximate deposit area; because if you screw up, then you have an expensive tear-down-rebuild on your hands. So I would expect to keep at least 500 hectares in explicit reserve for mining and exploration.The mine’s processing plant probably won’t take up more than 6 hectares of land, and your 5MW solar farm will take up 15 hectares at the upper end.The Honeywell uranium conversion plant in Illinois takes up approximately 24 hectares, but it’s set up to process some 15,000 tonnes of UF6 per year at full capacity. You only need one-tenth of one percent of that capacity per bomb. However, like the mine size, you can’t expect to process multiple tonnes of volatile gasses and compounds in 0.1% of the space (240 square meters) just because you need 0.1% of the product.Just, no. You cannot make 12 tonnes of uranium hexafluoride in the space of a cozy family home.If we isolate what appear to be the core processing facilities of the Honeywell plant – we’ll have a lot of empty land, so we don’t need to double-up on calculating things like parking lots and storage yards – it comes out to about 5 hectares. Maybe you could compress that into 2 or 3 hectares, but some equipment might simply not lend itself to further compression; so for planning purposes, we’ll stick with 5 hectares.Your centrifuge plant should be able to house 10-20 SWU per square meter, which potentially makes it the smallest of your facilities. Still, that’s just the space for your centrifuge cascades. You need to account for storage, maintenance, staff, etc.The URENCO plant in New Mexico, for example, acquired 220 hectares of land for its initial 3 million SWU facility, even operations take place on about 44 hectares, with the actual (since-upgraded) facility space occupying 10 hectares. That means its actual SWU/square meter is upwards of 60; however, they’re using the latest and greatest centrifuges, and you won’t be.So for planning purposes, set aside two hectares.Finally, we have to set space aside for the missile’s construction.SpaceX has revolutionised the rocket construction industry by vertically integrating its construction process onto a small campus; and given both the size of your missile and scale of your production, you might actually be able to replicate its small construction footprint. SpaceX’s main facilities in Hawthorne, California, have a combined footprint of 39,000 square meters, so just shy of 4 hectares. As previously established, you don’t need to worry about building a launch facility, and you’ll have plenty of open space for testing that we don’t need to necessarily set aside.Where does that leave us on land?Initial plot: 1,060 hectaresMining and exploration: 500Solar farm: 15Ore processing facility: 6Conversion facility: 5Enrichment facility: 2Missile production: 4Total used: 532Spare: 528And if that seems like a lot of empty space, consider it as a privacy/security buffer, or room to set aside if you ever feel generous and decide to build a tenement village for your many workers (seeing as how you’re out in the middle of nowhere – that’s a very long commute).So how much would that amount of land cost?It would depend a bit on the state in which you discover your deposit, and then where in that state, but in general, the median, statewide price per hectare in Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia for sales in excess of 500 hectares ranges from $785 to $1,100. However, the more rural you get, the faster those medians drop (eg, $277 per hectare in west Queensland, $536 in east Western Australia).So if you think you can compress your whole operation into 530 hectares atop a deposit in Queensland, then you might be looking at $416,000 in land acquisition. Get stuck with a large parcel in the north of Western Australia – which, reminder, is going to be the least amenable to your uranium prospecting – and you might have to pay out $1.2 million or more.And so now, finally, getting back to the question: How much does it cost to build a nuclear weapon and ICBM from scratch?$327.5 million for the first pair, $49.95 million for each pair thereafter.You might be looking at those figures and having a little freak out. “That’s so cheap for a country! Why don’t more nations have nukes? Why doesn’t a well-funded terrorist organization have one?!”Well, let’s put a lot of my very speculative writing back into perspective.First off, yes, that amount of money is nothing for advanced nations like the United States, Russia, and China. Again, the US Department of Defense is currently considering replacing its entire ICBM arsenal at a cost of upwards $100 billion over several decades – and that’s being considered costly but not prohibitive.But let’s assume for a moment that every country on Earth spent an average of two percent of their GDP on military matters, with one-fourth of a percent solely going towards a nuclear program (which would be nearly double the US’ annual expenditure as a percent of GDP); and let’s assume that, for an effective nuclear deterrent, a nation needs 25 nuclear-armed ICBMs, and they aim to build it within three years (a pretty quick ramp-up). Based on all of the above, that means a nation would have to spend around $1.53 billion – about $500 million per year – to get an admittedly very crude nuclear deterrent.In order to make that kind of a commitment, a nation would need to have a minimum annual GDP of $204 billion per year. Depending on who’s counting, there are only 40 to 50 nations with that level of GDP, and most of them are allies with an existing nuclear power (to make the development of their own nuclear arsenal unnecessary).Obviously we can play with those figures all we’d like until we make it “affordable” for every nation on the planet to put aside a little bit each year to their nuclear rainy day fund, but eventually we’re going to hit a floor where the level of annual spending is insufficient to make any substantive progress towards a nuclear bomb and delivery system. Let’s say that floor is $75 million per year at one-tenth of a percent of GDP. Quick math says that means a GDP of $75 billion per year would be sufficient to acquire a crude deterrent in 20 years.That expands the list of potential nuclear states to a whopping 70 – less than half of all nations on Earth – and over a period of time that would almost certainly subject those nations to sanctions and trade embargos to severely restrict their capacity to make good on their ambitions (eg, why Iraq was very far from achieving nuclear club status by 1991).Moreover, our scenario assumes a steady, securable supply of uranium. That is, unfortunately (or fortunately), well beyond most nations, as proven deposits only exist in 50 nations, with appreciable deposits and mining activity in about half of them.No uranium, (effectively) no nukes.The challenges for a rogue organization (ie, “the terrorists”) to achieve nuclear club status are even more enormous. In what universe are they supposed to get the capacity to acquire and enrich industrial levels of uranium without anybody noticing, much less build the highly technical facilities to pull off bomb and missile development? It’s just not a realistic possibility.This is why the worry of intelligence agencies is terrorists getting their hands on one of the mythical “suitcase nukes” that went missing in the collapse of the Soviet Union, or sufficient quantities of other radioactive materials and using them in a dirty bomb rather than manufacturing a sophisticated nuclear weapon from scratch. It’s much easier – relatively speaking – for a terrorist organization to steal and repurpose other people’s nuclear research and development than to try and develop the capacity on their own.That’s exactly why the world’s existing nuclear powers and major intelligence organizations so closely guard and monitor the trafficking and storage of nuclear weapon-capable components. Moreover, because the process for building a crude nuclear device can be pretty easily researched by someone determined enough (see all of the above), it’s also pretty well known where the possible exploits might be, and how to protect against them.Furthermore, just because a person (or group of people) might compile the core knowledge needed to understand how to build a nuclear bomb and delivery vehicle by no means guarantees that they have the capability to produce such things. They would still require the expertise of a pretty exclusive club of scientists and engineers, most of whom are already employed by legitimate makers and maintainers of nuclear materials and who would probably not readily sign on to a rogue actor’s up-and-coming program.So if you have $300-odd million to spare and a lot of land on top of a uranium deposit, yeah, okay, you might have the bare resources needed to get your own nuclear weapons program up and running. However, don’t be surprised if any of the nuclear engineers and physicists you approach to join your team turn right around and alert any number of international authorities about your intentions.But hey, let me know how far you get, by which I mean I’ll read about it in the news after you’re detained and authorities share with the media just how close you did (or, more likely, didn’t get).On the upside, John Lithgow might make a cameo appearance in the television depiction of your endeavour and ultimate downfall.Cost: Priceless.

Meet Knight A sent my his liege to defend against enemy attack.16th Century Knights(SOURCE: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/485755509783040830/)Knight A meets up with 19,999 other knights from various locales. Most don’t speak his language. They’ve never trained together. They’ve never fought together. In fact, this deployment by his liege is really inconvenient. Hopefully, it doesn’t take too long. There are harvest and other business to take care of home.However, these fine fellows are about to meet four devil dogs in an eerie, abandoned town. They just don’t know it yet.Here are three of our heroes headed toward that town.(Source: Tuning the AR-15 Gas System [Less Recoil, Duty, & Suppressed] - Pew Pew Tactical)These three recon Marines have been told to reconnoiter and, if possible, seize the foreign emperor who is expected to set up his headquarters in the middle of the town NLT 24 hours from now. They know the sooner they get this down, the sooner they can go home. They’re prepared to rock and roll.What they don’t expect is the type of enemy they’ll encounter nor the type of town they’ll be operating in — until the get there. And, where is there? Somehow, when they came over that last rise, they entered the 14th century. Next stop, the Twilight Zone! [Cue music] ;)However, checking comms, they are still in contact with their unit. The commander gives the instructions to press on — OOOhhh RAW!They move into town at dusk. There’s no evidence of civilians. But what is this place. It’s not modern and it’s not mud huts! As they move in the shadows, they find strange overhanging buildings and narrow lanes. They finally reach the center of the town with this “broad opening” in the otherwise narrow paths.(Pic from Stratford-on-Avon)Outside the “best” building in town, they consider their next course of action, just as a small group of four, strangely dressed individuals enter the “courtyard” near them. Deciding to get some HUMINT (human intelligence), they quickly surround the group. Two draw swords. Two shots and one rifle butt stroke later, only one is left standing.(SOURCE: Inside the Court of Henry VIII | PBS)They move the bodies and living out of the street and into the top floor of the building across the street. They set up a sentry above and below and the sergeant begins to interrogate the prisoner.After a few questions to which the interrogated seems confused, the prisoner stands firmly upright and says in a garble, “I am the admodie servant of King Henry here to afaiten for his majesty's arrival. Abyd you'll regret this abuse “Sergeant Leatherneck shakes his head and wonders if he or the prisoner took a blow to the head. After another half hour and some vague recollections of English literature Leatherneck realizes they’re in the late 1500s during the time of King Henry VIII and this joker is speaking Middle English. King Henry is due to arrive by mid afternoon tomorrow to take up arms against strange demons and their human consorts loose in the land. The prisoner makes it clear Leatherneck is undoubtedly one of them.Hoping this is indeed the result of a TBI, since no one would believe otherwise, Leatherneck radios back to his unit only to learn that command was indeed aware of this bizarre time shift. They’re told to recon the rest of the town and report back. Hours later, the sergeant reports back numerous camps of men in armor East, NE, and SE of the town. No further activity is seen in town, though the capture of another prisoner has given them further information. The first wave of retainers and knights is expected to enter the town from the East around high noon. The prisoner says up to 20,000 knights are expected to converge on the town over the next day or so.With this information, Sergeant Leatherneck radios in. Command indicates they must make every effort to capture King Henry the VIII; however, no additional forces are available to help. Surprisingly, more time tunnels have opened up and not all have been easy to deal with. Thus, this one must be pacified ASAP. To assist, a Huey can deliver gear through the rift. Leatherneck asks for four M249 light machine guns with ammo, two Mk 19 grenade launchers, two M32A1 handheld grenade launchers, two Mossberg 500A2 12-gauge shotguns, a Mk13 Md7 sniper rifle, claymores, grenades, tear gas, trip wire, and additional ammo for all weapons.PFC Schmuckatelli and LCPL Joe Bagadonuts move to the Western side of town to rendezvous with their chopper while one maintains watch. After three hours, the dull thud of a chopper becomes increasingly evident before it settles in the grass ½ a mile from town. The crew is quick to get the gear and ammo out shouting another bird is coming in. They wave the recon Marines back and take off. In the distance, it sounds like a low flying fixed wing, but soon the “fixed” wing stops in mid-air and hovers.V-22 Osprey(SOURCE: V-22 Osprey)“Shit, Joe,” one Marine punches the other. “It’s an Osprey.” Sure enough. The Osprey descends to the ground with its rotors above it now. While the rotors rotate, the cargo door opens and out rolls a Growler. This Jeep-like recon vehicle holds four Marines (or more in a pinch) and this one mounts a Mk 19. Driving the Growler is Gunnery Sergeant Lejeune. He pulls up and shouts, “I figured you hard cases needed somebody to pull you out of another soup sandwich! Get in!” In unison the two shout “Yut” and jump in for a quick run to the load left by the Huey.M1161 Growler(SOURCE: Growler (vehicle) - Wikipedia)Now with four marines, gear and a getaway vehicle, it’s time to get planning. Leatherneck and Lejeune discuss options while their juniors humped weapons, ammo, and gear. Given what they’ve learned it’s clear, they’ll be outnumbered. Later as they meet to discuss the plan, Lejeune begins. “Anything close to 20,000 knights would seem impossible for us, but we’ve got the advantage. Think Chesty Puller at Chosin.” Schmucketelli says, “Gunny?” “Remember,” Gunny LeJeune replies. “He told his troops as the Chinese poured in, we’ve been looking for the bastards and we’ve finally found them. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things!”“Look at like this Marines,” the Gunny goes on. “What do 20,000 knights have on us? We have better weapons, better comms, better transpo, you name it. 20,000 knights become 20,000 targets. They won’t have horses in these narrow streets. They’ll struggle to reach us if we operate from the rooftops, and Claymores will provide some real disincentives to chasing us through these buildings. Plus, we can lay down enough suppressive fire with the heavier weapons and then bug out using our lighter weapons and grenades.So, the plan is set. Claymores are laid with both command and trip wires to control the access to the buildings the Marines will initially operate from. Lanes of fire our laid out from multiple shooting points. Rappelling gear is set up from some roofs. Ammo is divvied and non-essential gear is stowed. The Growler is stored inside a small stable to the West. They then take turns sleeping fitfully and pack in some food and water between.Noises from the east begin at sunrise and suggest camps are being torn down. Nobody in the street yet. The prisoners are gagged and bound more tightly to avoid problems. Each man goes to his position.They wait. As the morning passes, small numbers of people begin to trickle in. Their attention is primarily on the building where the original prisoners were captured. There is furious sweeping, carrying of water and other tasks of preparing for the king’s arrival. Near 10:30 a group of 30 knights march in with what round, spiked shields and bastard swords. They have lions on their liveries. This appears to be some of the king’s bodyguards. The apparent commander orders his men to surround the building while he and six others enter the building.More march in. Nobles and finely dressed men, and some women, arrive with their guards and enter the building. At 11:30, trumpets blow, and the sound of a large body of marching men is carried by the light breeze from the East. “This is it boys,” whispers LeJeune. “Keep sharp.”Near noon, a large body of marching knights tramps past the king’s soon-to-be HQ. Some march past and take up positions in the West. Others are led by their commanders to the North and South. Each group that moves brings the king’s entourage closer.Then there he is! The king himself comes into view. Carried in an a large, ornate litter, King Henry VIII struggles to get out of the litter carried by eight men. Courtiers and servants surround him, attentive to his needs and all bow as he exits the litter and remain bowed as he enters the building.“Now!” LeJeune yells from his rooftop perch as he and Schmucketelli open up with a Mk19 firing down southern and western approaches while the other team does the same to the northern and western approaches. The 40mm grenade launchers rain death and destruction down on the unwitting knights and clusters of servants. Screams of panic, groans of agony, and running people are everywhere. So are gaping holes in the ground and body parts.Seeing the streets are where the explosions are occurring some race into surrounding buildings. Some of those who run into the king’s HQ die at the hands of the bodyguard who believe they may be traitors and assassins. Those who race into other buildings discover the raw power of Claymore mines that shred dozens of them and their fellows behind. The screaming and confusions grow more intense.A few knights on the periphery have been watching the fields of fire from a distance and resolve themselves to prove their loyalty to the king and their chivalrous nature by seeking out the fire spitting dragons and the wizards who aimed them. One handful races into the ground floor of the building below Leatherneck and Bagodonuts. They’re safe from the original Claymores that reeked havoc on early entrants. They jostle each other for the honor to enter the building first. Those who succeed are the first to meet a Claymore themselves. Those who survive meet more further up the stairs.Meanwhile, the teams switch to the more discriminating M249s and rake the streets to ensure the walking and wounded are no longer a threat. As the hammering of the machine guns slows, the sounds of screaming are largely gone except for those fleeing the scene. In some places, mounds of bodies block the way as the living fled only to die as they attempted to hurdle their recently deceased comrades.A few bodyguards come from around the back of the HQ but are easily dispatched with M4s. Very little is moving except a few still writhing in agony.“Go Phase 2,” LeJeune shouts into his mike. Shmucketelli and Leatherneck leave their firing position. Check their gear. Secure their M4s and Mossbergs loaded with 00 shot and slug mixes. Once set, they rappel into the street as their rooftop compatriots cover them. Forming up they move together towards the door of the HQ.Now with an obvious enemy, a dozen of the bodyguard form up and charge as a unit. Their shields cast aside for speed, since these pitiful characters came to a sword fight without a sword, they raise their swords and shout, “FOR THE KING!!”SGT Leatherneck aims right. LCPL Schmucketelli aims left and the unload their five rounds each as they spray lead and steel across this noble fighting force. Of these mighty men, only one raises to his feet. “Acorse you demons!” he shouts, before he is dispatched by Leathernecks M9. The two Marines reload their Mossbergs. “Wish these damn things held more than five rounds,” grumbles Schmucketelli.From above the Gunny, finds targets on the rises above town and drops them to keep maximum confusion. Bagodonuts is covering the advance of the ground team.In order to avoid killing King Henry outright, they step to the sides of the entrance, don gas masks, and lob canisters of tear gas into the building. As the slobbering, blubbering victims stagger out, Bagadonuts dispatches them with his M4, thus saving the ammo of the ground team. When no one else exits, they enter.Some wounded have crawled into the building, but they dying or incapacitated. They’re ignored. Leatherneck and Schmucketelli move to the back of the building. Two doors lead out from the main room. One is open. One is closed.This is where a guy really earns his pay. Clearing unknown buildings with unknown enemies. In a different situation, hand grenades would be a great option. No fuss, no muss, at least till you had to walk through the viscera in the aftermath.Listening at the open door.No sounds inside.Listening at the closed door. Sounds of heavy breathing and whispers are clear.At a nod from Leatherneck, Schmucketelli jacks out two of the rounds from his Mossberg and drops in two breaching rounds. Stepping back and to the sides he takes aim at the locking mechanism while Leatherneck covers the entrance with his M4.Blam! Blam! As heavy as that lock looked, the soft iron was no match for the breaching rounds. Scuffling and shouts no emanate from within.Schmucketelli kicks the door and crow hops back.Almost instantly, a knight boils out of the door with sword drawn and shield raised. Not seeing Schmucketelli to his right, he heads directly for Leatherneck.Leatherneck fires once but it deflects off the shield. It turns the knight but doesn’t stop him. Now within two feet, the knight let’s out a mighty war cry intent on cleaving Leatherneck in two. However, three rounds at point blank range from Schmucketelli’s M-9 discourage that effort.With a curse, Leatherneck moves past the crumpled knight while two more race out in much the same manner. Both Marines are targeted. Both Marines adapt their tactics and shoot their opponents in the legs. Then double tap them as they fall. Inside sobbing and praying grows louder.King Henry himself comes to the door. Leatherneck disarms the feeble Henry with a but stroke. He knocks him to the ground and secures his hands with plastic restraints. Schmucketelli guards against follow-on attacks, but none come.Leatherneck wrestles Henry to his feet despite the king’s mighty shouts and red face. Henry struggles to stand evenly because of his gout.The comms crackle. It’s Gunny LeJeune. “Sit rep!”Leatherneck responds, “Sierra Hotel Gunny. Target acquired. Headed out!”To make sure there are no surprises Schmucketelli exits backwards with his Mossberg at the ready.Leatherneck uses his comm to announce his intent to leave the building dragging the hobbling and now babbling Henry along.Both roof positions report all clear.The ground team exits the building. As they do a few more feeble charges are attempted by individual knights only to be stopped dead with a rifle round or two.They hobble down road towards the stable with Schmucketelli on point. The roof team guards their six.At LeJeune’s order, Bagodonuts leaves unpinned grenades under the heavy weapons and retreats. He rappels down and moves towards the stables. Together he and the ground team bring out the Growler and move to LeJeune’s position to cover his exit.Quickly loading, they turn and hightail it toward camp with King Henry VIII securely in their possession. A few more single or small groups of knights are dispatched with small weapons or the MK19, but there’s little fight left in them. Most have run away from “monstrous forces” that were beyond their understanding but left death and destruction at the hands of four wizards.Britain bewails their fate at the capture of King Henry. They will come to understand who is now in charge.As the teams sails towards the temporal rift and home, Leatherneck asks LeJeune, “So what should we expect when we get back Gunny?”“Trust me Marine,” LeJeune intones. “The old man will be happy about this haul, but this was an easy mop-up assignment. You don’t want to see some the things that came through to our side of the rift.”Some lessons from real and fantasy combatMass can be important but it’s not everything. Surprise, initiative, maneuver, good intel, and more can overcome mass of arms, troops, etc. Keep in mind the key principles of war. MOOSEMUS refers to the key principles of war practiced by the US military: Mass, Objective, Offensive, Security, Economy of Force, Maneuver, Unity of Command, Surprise, Simplicity. It’s used by all US Armed Forces.In this scenario, you didn’t need to kill 20,000 knights. You need to dissuade them from stopping you from achieving your objective. Consider Desert Storm for example. Military planners using WWII and Korean War data determined the United States would likely lose nearly 50,000 as casualties, since we were facing an entrenched enemy with the fourth largest military in the world. Iraq certainly had mass, but it lacked many of these other principles in practice. Further, U.S. forces used air assets to end run those frontline defenses to attack command and control nets, headquarters, etc. in addition to key units. Superior intel, comms, and coordination allowed US forces to outthink and outshoot the Iraqi forces.There are similarities in this fantasy situation, though the “mass” of knights in a crowded town was of little value in terms of bringing that mass to bear on an objective. Knights largely trained to fight individually. After an initial charge, it was usually every man as a separate fighting unit. Command and control was limited. So was surprise. Obviously, 20,000 knights fails in the Economy of Force category. Multiple commanders and individual knights as commanders meant no real unity of command. Unknown, long-range, deadly technology provided the Marines surprise and aided their maneuver.

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