DIY NUKES

By VBS Staff

Working from old photos and the recollections of aging Manhattan Project workers, John Coster-Mullen somehow managed to piece together the exact specifications of Robert Oppenheimer’s famous Fat Man and Little Boy. Then he did what any reasonable person would do with said info: He put it in a book and sold it over the internet. If you ever find yourself on the business end of a mushroom cloud, odds are you’ve got John and his spare time to thank.

In this week’s edition of Motherboard we follow the country’s leading amateur nuke expert to Chicago to discuss his “hobby” with the research scientists of the Fermi Research Lab. I guess now’s the best time to drop the bomb that he didn’t even finish college.

Oh and if any of you were considering picking up a copy of John’s book from Amazon to do a little amateur nuking of your own, hopefully the above cartoon they make Japanese students watch every year on Hiroshima Day will batter your conscience back into submission. Either that or severely screw with your sexual predilections for the next half a century. (PS, skip to 4:00 for the action.)

By VBS Staff 2 years ago

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