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Two Students Built an A-Bomb (2003)
- pinewurst 2y ago(2003)
- bell-cot 2y agotl;dr; version - In the mid 1960's, America's nuclear bomb program hired two young physics PhD's, who had zero-ish nuclear weapon knowledge. Their job - sit in an office, and try to design a working A-bomb - based on (1) public knowledge, (2) nuclear experiments that a 4th-rate nation could have performed at the time, and (3) the assumption that said 4th-rate nation had gotten its hands on a modest supply of weapons-grade plutonium. Strategic Objective: Determine whether or not the only real barrier between troublesome 4th-rate nations and Nuclear Power status was access to weapons-grade not-yet-glowing stuff. Test Result: SH*T. Said access was definitely the only barrier. So we better ramp up Major Efforts to limit such access...
- NikkiA 2y agoThere was also a so-so 80s movie based on the same premise (but a single high school student) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091472/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091472/