"Nuclear Archaeology" Inspires Replica of Hiroshima's Little Boy

James Cho writes "Through a decade of painstaking reverse engineering, trucker John Coster-Mullen built the first accurate replica of the Hiroshima bomb. His work yielded a new history of the first nukes, 'Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man,' with historian Robert Norris saying, 'Nothing else in the Manhattan Project literature comes close.' Philip Morrison, one of the physicists who helped invent the bomb, deemed it 'a remarkable job.'"

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Re:FUD, censorship, and freedom.

[shmlco]

"But the vast legions of radicals that Bush and Cheney used to keep the populace in check..."

Hope you noticed that it didn't take "vast legions of radicals" to make a rather large hole in lower Manhatten...

"Despite this being true, and known to millions upon millions of people with no love for america, nothing has happened."

Well... nothing successful, at any rate.

It also helps--for the lack of a better word--that we tend to get kind of pissy when we find out who did something to us. Taking out a building or two in exchange for having your entire country bombed flat isn't exactly equitable.