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"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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  1. Re:First homebrew nuke by RichardJenkins · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully not that accurate.

  2. Re:How soon until... by Cyberax · · Score: 5, Funny

    But they can make you warm, fuzzy and positively glowing!

  3. Re:How soon until... by WolfWithoutAClause · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never mind that, what about the right to arm nuclear bears? You're just not thinking about the big picture!

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