Atomic Secrets? Pah!

Those who lie awake at night terrified at the thought of nuclear terrorism will be comforted by the Guardian's story on how two students built an A-bomb. Yes, the US army has done some research on the matter (the "Nth country" project), and while its non-trivial, it's not exactly hard either - any well-resourced physics PhD can do it, given the right materials. I'm just waiting for Bush to declare physics students a precuser to WMDs, and start killing them all off...

On a lighter note, geeks will be pleased to see that the scientists chose to build a plutonium implosion device (rather than a simple gun) because it was a more challenging problem...