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Yes the story of Princeton University undergraduate student, Matthew McKinzie (in 1990's) as a student of physicist Freeman Dyson, built a working prototype of an atomic bomb using publicly available information. This was a demonstration of the feasibility of building a bomb using open-source materials.
(I knew Prof Dyson fairly well, the student actually got an A in the paper as per the prof thing should work ..)
The story garnered significant attention from major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. Pakistan reportedly offered a large sum of money for the paper![:rotfl:]( "ROTFL")
(I wrote some posts about it some 25 years ago in BRF.. some parts about Pak embassy was really funny as the information can *easily* be gotten by asking any good grad student in nuclear physics)
The FBI classified the paper and even the blackboard diagrams McKinzie used in his presentation. This incident highlighted the ease with which nuclear weapons could be developed using publicly available information and sparked debates about nuclear proliferation ityadi ..
Yes the story of Princeton University undergraduate student, Matthew McKinzie (in 1990's) as a student of physicist Freeman Dyson, built a working prototype of an atomic bomb using publicly available information. This was a demonstration of the feasibility of building a bomb using open-source materials.
(I knew Prof Dyson fairly well, the student actually got an A in the paper as per the prof thing should work ..)
The story garnered significant attention from major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. Pakistan reportedly offered a large sum of money for the paper
(I wrote some posts about it some 25 years ago in BRF.. some parts about Pak embassy was really funny as the information can *easily* be gotten by asking any good grad student in nuclear physics)The FBI classified the paper and even the blackboard diagrams McKinzie used in his presentation. This incident highlighted the ease with which nuclear weapons could be developed using publicly available information and sparked debates about nuclear proliferation ityadi ..
Statistics: Posted by Amber G. — 19 Jun 2024 06:38