Reply #9: Anybody here remember?

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Back in 1976, there was a student from Princeton who wanted to see if he could get all the info to build a nuclear weapon from publicly available sources? I do, because his brother lived in my dorm at the time. He told us to watch the evening news, that his brother was going to be on it and we were all trying to guess why. He wouldn't say, just told us to wait and watch, so we did. We were all thinking it had to be some human interest piece at the end, but no, here he was, one of the lead stories. He made quite a stir at the time, but he proved the point that all (well just for one fact) the information was out there ready to be had. The only fact that he didn't have was the neutron absorption cross-section for U-238 and he managed to get that in one phone call to Los Alamos. In their defense, it was a classified number and they shouldn't have given it out, but somehow, someone did.

If that was the state of information in 1976, I wonder what makes Dimbulb George think you can prevent people from finding out today.