How John Coster-Mullen Learned To Stop Worrying and Reverse Engineer the Bomb

Sure, you’ve blocked out this week to return unwanted gifts (“Thanks, Uncle Felix, I do so love angora. And what a stunning mustard hue!”), find the perfect 2009 calendar, and make collage-based tributes to the late Eartha Kitt, but we suggest that before 2008 is out, you read David Samuelsfascinating New Yorker profile of John Coster-Mullen, the Wisconsin truck driver who has solved myriad mysteries of the first atom bombs. Say what?

Coster-Mullen, 61, is the author of the self-published book Atom

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