You might check out John McPhee’s The Curve of Binding Energy, a non-fiction book. There’s a lot of stuff in there about how his interview subject (a former nu

You might check out John McPhee’s The Curve of Binding Energy, a non-fiction book. There’s a lot of stuff in there about how his interview subject (a former nuclear weapons designer) would approach the problem of designing an improvised nuclear device (circa about 1974)…