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How two students built an A-bomb (2003)
- ggm 4y agoRhodes writes about the significant concern far too much information leaked from Manhattan into "the Los Alamos primer" document that provided confirmation of "how to do it" -people got accused of leaking state secrets until the authorities realised it had been publicly released and approved for security downgrade. He also writes about Kurchatov confirming soviet theory moving to praxis from a document kept on premises in a safe, presumably things Fuchs and others supplied: they had to "do the maths" to validate their engineering but Kurchatov had a check.