A “potential proliferator” for sure.
I know who I’m going to for design help when I activate my top secret codenamed plan: PROJECT IMPROVISED NUCLEAR DEVICE!
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Now I want to know more about why a radical feminist newspaper was printing a design for The Bomb... was that a thing for a while, culminating in the publication of the Teller-Ulam design?
It was a thing in the 1970s, spurred by John McPhee's "The Curve of Binding Energy" and Ted Taylor's claims that anyone could do it if they tried. Ultimately they were displays of power/knowledge mixed with arguments in favor of fissile material safeguards.
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You can see Morland's Teller-Ulam work as pushed by a similar "draw the bomb" drive though his politics were very different (his was not a safeguards argument, it was an anti-secrecy argument).
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I have an entire chapter in my forthcoming book on dedicated to the "draw the bomb" activism of the 1970s, as an aside. It's a pretty fascinating story... "anyone can design an atomic bomb" has been a very popular trope since at least 1946.
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I look forward to reading this very much.
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I do remember finding Mcphee's "The Curve of Binding Energy" fascinating when I read it as a teen. I still have my copy.
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