Seymour Sack

A 77-year-old retiree, known as an eccentric genius but in declining health, played an unexpected role over the last year in designing the nation's new hydrogen bomb. Seymour Sack, a legend among nuclear weapons designers, was called in from his home in the hills above Berkeley into his old offices in a high-security zone of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Sack's role illustrates the predicament facing the U.S.

A 77-year-old retiree, known as an eccentric genius but in declining health, played an unexpected role over the last year in designing the nation's new hydrogen bomb. Seymour Sack, a legend among nuclear weapons designers, was called in from his home in the hills above Berkeley into his old offices in a high-security zone of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Sack's role illustrates the predicament facing the U.S.

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