(on the subject of books)
Anyone else a bit worried ?
(extract from Gordon Corera's Shopping for bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity And The Rise And Fall Of The Aq Khan Network)
In 1964, a US nuclear lab ran a test to check how far nuclear weapons information had dispersed. It found that two recent PHD students who were not experts had managed to collect enough material to plan a device. In 1977, an undergraduate at Princeton University managed in five months to write a thesis on designing an implosion weapon from publicly available information. This was of course before the internet age. More recently, in 2007, a physics master at a British public school had to remove from a website a step-by-step guide on how the first British atomic bomb was built. And now, thanks to Aq Khan - the designs for a Chinese weapon are thought to be circulating on the black market.
^_^;
Anyone else a bit worried ?
(extract from Gordon Corera's Shopping for bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity And The Rise And Fall Of The Aq Khan Network)
In 1964, a US nuclear lab ran a test to check how far nuclear weapons information had dispersed. It found that two recent PHD students who were not experts had managed to collect enough material to plan a device. In 1977, an undergraduate at Princeton University managed in five months to write a thesis on designing an implosion weapon from publicly available information. This was of course before the internet age. More recently, in 2007, a physics master at a British public school had to remove from a website a step-by-step guide on how the first British atomic bomb was built. And now, thanks to Aq Khan - the designs for a Chinese weapon are thought to be circulating on the black market.
^_^;