Bomb Facts

The first bomb dropped on Berlin in WWII killed an elephant in the Berlin Zoo - but it wasn't the only one. The zoo had nine elephants when the war began.

In 1976, Princeton junior John Aristotle Phillips wrote a physics term paper detailing how to build a nuclear bomb using only publicly available information. He received an A, but the paper was immediately classified by the government and he was visited by FBI agents and Pakistani officials seeking the design.