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!
#PhDLifehttps://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1128071698601791490 …
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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).
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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"Anyone" is most potent when it includes groups that are not typically thought of as "bomb designers," like children and college students. You can see the coverage of John Coster-Mullen as a variant on this them ("trucker draws the bomb").
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You actually answered a question I had asked on Reddit about the potential legality of Coster-Mullen's book! I remember you mentioned a study by... DoE? that had undergrads w/ only basic nuclear physics knowledge drawing bombs & they seemed to have been mostly successful.
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Grad students, not undergrads, but yeah — the Nth Country Experiment, 1967.http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/01/04/weekly-document-8-reexamining-the-the-nth-country-experiment-1967/ …
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