I'd also encourage people to read David Langford's book, The Leaky Establishment, which is definitely not in any way based on his experiences working at the Ato

I'd also encourage people to read David Langford's book, The Leaky Establishment, which is definitely not in any way based on his experiences working at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, aka the UK's atom bomb factory, in the 1980s; it says so right in the dedication at the front: http://ansible.uk/books/leaky.html http://ansible.uk/books/leaky.html It tells the story of how our hero smuggles a discarded filing cabinet home with him one day, only to discover that someone has popped a plutonium warhead into the bottom drawer while he wasn't looking; he spends the rest of the book trying to smuggle it back in again. Spheres play a key role.