It doesn't take a Saddam Hussein or a Kim Jong Il to build atomic bombs. John Coster-Mullen has done it unaided. And he's a Wisconsin truck driver.
Rest assured, Coster-Mullen won't commit genocide: his bombs have no nuclear fuel. But this college dropout has determined the design of the bombs dropped over Hiroshima ("Little Boy") and Nagasaki ("Fat Man"), and built an exact replica of Little Boy. "I've spent 15 years and thousands of hours reading declassified documents, studying photographs and interviewing people who were involved with the bombs", he says. "The secret of the atomic bombs is that they're easy to make."
Coster-Mullen, who calls the bombs his obsession, conducts mental calculations of the bombs' design during his night-time routes on deserted highways. "I found a paragraph here, a sentence there, and finally was able to reverse-engineer them", the trucker explains. "I'm still making improvements, but since 9/11 the government has made it harder to access information."
Remarkably, Coster-Mullen's book Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man has become a trusted reference for nuclear weapons experts. "His research is very impressive, but unfortunately people who want to make nuclear bombs can benefit from it", says Dr. Robert Norris, a nuclear weapons expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "The hard part is getting the fuel. You can't make nuclear fuel in a cave in Pakistan."
But countries and terrorists are trying to obtain the fuel, and they don't need much of it to cause devastation. "The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs are like firecrackers compared to today's weapons", says Coster-Mullen. "Today someone could eliminate Manhattan with a nuclear weapon the size of a basketball."
Elisabeth Braw wrote this story for 
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Second, Not only did we have a socialist mayor in Milwaukee who cleaned up the city government, he also balanced the budget and created many long lasting legacies that we in Milwaukee are proud of.
Finally, on a more serious note, this reminds me of a freshman seminar class I had in college. Do we have the right to all information? The funny thing is that the physics behind the bomb is taught in 9th grade science classes, all one needs are the materials and some extra technicial expertise. It's just a good thing that one can not by enriched Uranium at the local mall.
After all "A well regulated militia ..."
Wisconsin is kind of schizophrenic politically. It could go either way.
It gave us La Follette, 40 years of socialist mayors in its largest city and Tail Gunner Joe.