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

Posted by timothy on from the sobering-and-more dept.

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. How soon until... by www.sorehands.com · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How soon until homeland security shows up accusing him of terrorism?

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    1. Re:How soon until... by sidb · · Score: 5, Insightful

      A working replica would be dangerous and surely illegal. It would not be terrorism unless he used it deliberately to terrorize a group of people. Just because something is bad doesn't make it terrorism.

    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 PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      insert lame joke about all of us being really, really lucky that Germany didn't have any nukes during WW2.

      I'm not sure that's a joke.

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    4. 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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  2. "Most of the time, I'm somebody else's problem" by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A working replica would be dangerous and surely illegal.

    If I had a working replica of a nuclear bomb in my basement, I don't think I would give a rat's ass about whether it was dangerous or illegal.

    If I did have a nuclear bomb, I would not have a problem.

    Some other folks would have a problem.

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

    Hopefully not that accurate.

  4. Best Line in the Article by dd1968 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the article: "Actually, he said, nothing about the bomb is secret. He smiled and added, 'The secret of the atomic bomb is how easy they are to make.'"