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Seriously misleading title. It seems to me that this particular experiment did not prove that "anyone could make a nuclear bomb". Rather, it demonstrated that a
by dbbolton 13y ago
Seriously misleading title. It seems to me that this particular experiment did not prove that "anyone could make a nuclear bomb". Rather, it demonstrated that a group of highly-educated physicists, when provided with the necessary resources and enough time, could develop one.
I sincerely doubt that reading this study would lead one to conclude that a member of a hunter-gatherer tribe could do the same. Perhaps "anyone" should have been substituted with "any industrialized country" in the title.