I created new map: The map of global catastrophic risks connected with nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
The map is interactive: if you press on the icons on the first page you will get detailed explanation of the topic. But it works only in pdf.
I hope it will make the map more readable but also will help to preserve all detailed information
You could download pdf with working links here: http://immortality-roadmap.com/nukerisk3bookmarks.pdf
Or you may read a presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/avturchin/global-catastrophic-risks-connected-with-nuclear-weapons-and-energy
Old school map full of text is here: http://immortality-roadmap.com/nukerisk2.pdf
I would like to get a feedback about this new map type: Is it helping readability and understanding? Does it look more rational and convincing?
I include here jpg-screenshorts of the pdf, but working links are only in pdf.
I'd say that the possibility of 'home made nukes' is essentially zero unless fissile isotopes become widely available and cheap, and even if all current controls on nuclear materials and technology were lifted, that would still be far from plausible. The US government pays about $1mil to $10mil worth of plutonium-238 for a single nuclear weapon; this is even though the current industrial process for producing plutonium is highly optimized and efficient (the first nuclear test required $1bn worth of fissile material).
'Home made nuke' is in the same category of plausibility as 'home made fighter jet'.
EDIT: There are some other misconceptions in your document as well. Natural fusion ignition (in materials at densities and pressures you could find anywhere on or in the Earth) is physically impossible to trigger via a nuclear explosion; a thermonuclear weapon only works by imploding some quantity of fuel contained inside the device, and this implosion requires very precise and special conditions to carry out.
'Salted' bombs are largely a myth; ordinary bombs made out of Uranium-238 (most of the current arsenal) produce far more dangerous radioactive isotopes than a hypothetical cobalt bomb. Most nuclear weapons are already 'salted.'
It looks like you did not look into details provided inside each of the topic. This proves for me that the idea of interactive pdf was wrong. ((
"Home made nukes" are not about plutonium but about pure fusion weapons. Several ways to create them has been suggested, all listed in the document.
Natural fusion ignition is not about the Earth but about enriched layers of deuterium in Jupiter. The idea is highly speculative, any way.
Salted bomb could create much large contamination as it is specially designed to do so. Most fusion bombs are rela