There's a more in-depth article on this here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science

There's a more in-depth article on this here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science I suppose the reassuring thing is that it took two fairly smart people a significant amount of time, and that was without management giving them too much agro, and with the ability to run experiments more or less as they pleased via asking their supervisors to run the tests and getting the results back. 'They were to explain at length, on paper, what part of their developing design they wanted to test, and they would pass it, through an assigned lab worker, into Livermore's restricted world. Days later, the results would come back - though whether as the result of real tests or hypothetical calculations, they would never know.' (Quote taken from the Guardian article.)