On a side note, in 1964 the US government sponsored an interesting project called the Nth Country Experiment to see if three graduate students in physics with n

On a side note, in 1964 the US government sponsored an interesting project called the Nth Country Experiment to see if three graduate students in physics with no prior weapons experience could design an atomic bomb using information in the public domain. The government's goal was to try and gauge how easy it was for other countries to design a nuclear bomb. 2 1/2 years later, they were judged to have come up with a credible design. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment