US Government Just Declassified War-Era Refrigerated Docs on DIY NUKES

The National Security Archive has recently published documents related to the country’s project, “a cold war grass experiment as a weapon of DIY nuclear weapons. Concerned about the possible nuclear weapons, the nuclear scientists in the Lawrence Liverme National National Liver Three Young Beyicists to see if they could design the nuclear weapon.

The documents include a Long report Written by the team that designed the NUKE DIY, a two-pager Briefing Memoand a long and heavily redacted report on a tour bright classified The team gave after completing the experiment. The last document is new and details a way Shows the Shienists made the Sikh experiment, in which they destroyed the country and gave it to develop an open nuclear weapon.

The new document is entitled “Background activity of the Country experiment” and includes a lot of light touches for a fair physics document There is a cartoon that diverts university students their protests are enough by the power of the bomb atom is a strange drawing of a man building a void while a black cat burns it.

“The details on his presentation are quite funny – that is, the small slides and drawings. It takes rather stupid for him to be almost free is almost completely how, given that the point of the hand of the country is to indicate that this type of demonstration is no more O than three PHD physicists of weapon design … And this was actually available for public knowledge 60 years ago, and with access to “desktop demonstration will be put . But rules are rules, I suppose,” Alex Wellersteina professor at the Institute of Technology and expert in the history of nuclear weapons, said Gizmodo.

The moment the United States tested the world’s first nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945, America said to worry about nuclear weapons in the “wrong hands.” Russia tested its first nuke just four years later. The UK said La Bomb in 1952, followed by France in 1960, and the Wonks Wonks in DC began to worry that every country in the world would soon have a nuclear weapon.

Nuclear science was a closely guarded secret. The detonation of the first atomic bomb took an incredible amount of time, resources and secrecy. Each subsequent village development was a little easier. How hard, would it be that the American experts asked, for the scientists of a country to build one of these weapons of the end of the world based on the information from soon?

They call it the problem of the country “, and to solve it they thought of the ” experiment of the country “

“(Lawrence National Liberation of Legurring) In the October of the hand in May 1964, to see if a few concessions and know with a document of growth and reminder NSA Read. The plan was for the experiment to end after a year, but you gave him three.

“Three young physicists, working part-time, succeeded in the review of nuclear weapons in a period of about three years:” The documents said. The conclusion, then, was that a group of dedicated scientists for a foreign government with the right resources and knowledge could build a nuclear weapon.

This turned out to be correct. During the course of the experiment, China detonated its first nuclear weapon. India and Pakistan followed a decade later. Israel, whose nuclear weapons program has been shrouded in secrecy, probably the nuclear weapon around the time of its country’s experiment South Africa and Libya had nuclear weapons programs that were close to ending before leaving for political reasons.

The papers noted that it was remarkable what three dedicated physicists with time and knowledge could accomplish. “The people in IOS Alamos have advantages of mongoist and experience (including the presence of some exceptional physicists) and the climate in the track of the world,” the documents stated. “I had the advantages of knowing that a bomb could build at a large amount of later on the reef waves, explosive nuclear technology since 1945.”

Wellerstein was happy to read the papers but wondered why then again the newcomer was still classified. “The value to declassify that information is not only the thief’s fascination, it would be to understand which aspects of this experience is a true” exposure “or not,” he said.

“Did they take a different path to think about the design of the bomb than the actual bomb designers at Los Alamos would have done at the time? That is more interesting, for me, than the final results’ (The bomb design), “Waringtein he said. “How many roads are there in the same results? How many approaches “Opening the Privilege” Opening a road or a path? This kind of thing is missing because of the laughs, unfortunately. Which, again, feels quite stupid given the point of the exercise.