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I’m reading about origins of The Manhattan Project right now. It’s a little shocking how easy it is to make an atomic bomb. Extremely difficult to make the fuel, yes, but the actual weapon? You just put these two chunks of rock together, quickly.

Making a military-grade version took an elite team of scientists and engineers, of course, and that process ultimately resulted in the overengineered world-shattering monstrousity that is the H-bomb.

But the early feasability reports are chilling in their simplicity.