He was an engineer who worked on nuclear things. Hand-picked by Rickover for work on the project. I'm going with "functionally pretty darn close", and the deta

He was an engineer who worked on nuclear things. Hand-picked by Rickover for work on the project. I'm going with "functionally pretty darn close", and the details are a bit ambiguous and/or complicated. You can persist in whatever version of it you prefer, however, it is no interest of mine.