[PROCON]

asked him what the atomic bomb looked like and he drew an outline of Fatman but seconds later he destroyed the drawing.

Interesting, classified material, I suppose.

Thanks for sharing!

[jesseam]

That was the only time that I knew of where security was broken.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My Dad’s brother worked on the Manhattan project in the K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Process Building at Oak Ridge, TN. After the war, he was at Los Alamos machining plutonium cores for bombs. My uncle just turned 90. I visited him about a year and a half ago and got talking with him about his experiences working on the early nuclear weapons projects. At one point, I asked about the machining tolerances he had to maintain on the plutonium components and he stopped for a few seconds, gave it some thought, and then replied “I can’t tell you that; it’s classified”!! I’ll never forget that.