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March 31, 2011 11:56 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GX-TDg0-7H0/truck-driver-builds.html
Truck driver builds the "most detailed replica of an A-bomb ever made"
From Motherboard TV: John Coster-Mullen is "a truck-driver with minimal college education, Coster-Mullen taught himself how to build the most detailed replica of an A-bomb ever made. "The secret of the atomic bomb is how easy they are to make." Last year, Motherboard visited Coster-Mullen to talk with him about his life project: reverse engineering the atomic bombs America dropped on Japan. His findings are available in a book he continuously updates and publishes himself called Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man, which has received rave reviews from the National Resource Defense Council: "nothing else in the Manhattan Project literature comes close to his exacting breakdown of the bomb's parts." The Atomic Trucker: How a Truck Driver "Rebuilt" the Atomic Bomb...Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GX-TDg0-7H0/truck-driver-builds.html
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