Claims

John Aristotle Phillips wrote a 1976 Princeton paper designing a crude A-bomb from public sources

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In 1976 Princeton physics student John Aristotle Phillips wrote a 34-page paper laying out a crude plutonium bomb design using only unclassified sources, to show that nearly anyone could do it. Whether the FBI seized it is a separate, held record.

Evidence

RelationRecordNote
documentsnytimes.comNYT 9 Oct 1976: 'John A. Phillips, a 21-year-old senior, using information obtained from unclassified sources, has prepared a 34-page report'.
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Sources

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Weinstein - suppressed physics (All-In 2026)asserts

Ties

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The FBI seized John Aristotle Phillips's A-bomb term papersplit into (FBI seizure clause)1976-1977Structural

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The FBI seized John Aristotle Phillips's A-bomb term papersplit from (FBI seizure clause)1976-1977Structural

Claim

In 1976 Princeton physics student John Aristotle Phillips wrote a 34-page paper laying out a crude plutonium bomb design using only unclassified sources, to show that nearly anyone could do it. Whether the FBI seized it is a separate, held record.