Template:Are You Sure/April 10

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• ... that the Nth Country Experiment was an experiment conducted from 1964 to 1967 by three young physicists with no prior weapons experience to develop a working nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information with basic computational and technical support; and that, according to a heavily redacted declassified version of the summary, it was apparently judged by lab weapons experts that the team had come up with a credible design for the technically more challenging implosion style nuclear weapon; and that it is likely that the team would have been able to design a simpler gun combination weapon even more quickly, though in such a case the limiting factor in developing such a weapon is not usually design difficulty but rather the procurement of enriched uranium?

• ... that physicist and academic Giovanni Aldini (10 April 1762 – 17 January 1834) contributed to galvanism, anatomy and its medical applications, the construction and illumination of lighthouses, and the mitigation of the destructive effects of fire?

... that renowned actor Max von Sydow developed laser-beam eyes while films The Seventh Seal?