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Bomb—were just three of the projects detailed in the classified reports he scanned.
    With that information and computer-aided design programs, they developed new bomb designs. Hearn as Austin somehow acquired access to one of the world’s fastest computers, a new CRAY supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, a computer used by DOE weapons scientists for their calculations. For good measure, he also acquired access to a second supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Tasks that took the Manhattan Project thousands of man hours to complete, took them but a fortnight. In some AEC reports, computational procedures had been worked out, and all they had to do was translate them into codes for the CRAY.
    Hearn developed a computer code for simulated explosions he called EXPLOVIEW. With it, they could change bomb parameters and determine explosive yields (kilotons). They designed bombs that approached a megaton, all of them vast improvements on the old AEC designs. To maximize the number of nuclear bombs they could build from material they intended to acquire, they decided on bombs averaging 40 kilotons, over three times the yield of the two dropped on Japan—and with much less weight.
    The other part of the plan involved DOE, where six months earlier Austin submitted a massive report to redesign NNSA’s nuclear transportation and security system. Everything was to be computerized, and the process coordinated on a classified website. This included hiring and assigning drivers and guards to trucks that transported nuclear material, organizing and approving the schedule for transporting nuclear material, automating inventory of nuclear material, etc. The report was immediately approved and funded. Austin was in charge of implementing the plan, and by now, the redesign of the system was nearing completion.
    In conjunction with his work in Washington with Hearn, Applenu commuted from Washington to the bomb-making facility he was setting up down south. The plan was for Applenu to manage the factory where they would process the hijacked nuclear material that was liquid into powder and the powder into a solid that could be machined into a nuclear explosive for the bomb. Hijacked solid material would be machined directly.
    To make it official, Hearn built a website for the factory, which they called Margine Nuclear Technology, a fuel-rod manufacturing facility, complete with e-mail accounts for dummy names that worked at marginenuclear.com. He said the site was for recruiting purposes.
    Hearn recruited a young chemist, Eric Drafton, to work on processing the liquid and powder. Drafton visited Washington for three weeks to confer about the project. Hearn, who was vague on how he met him, turned over a large amount of classified literature to him and Applenu on procedures for processing the plutonium and uranium from liquid through powders to metal. Drafton spent most of his time at the factory getting it ready, thus allowing Applenu to spend most of his time in Washington.
    Applenu figured Hearn worked fifteen-to-twenty hours a day—some as Austin on his DOE job, but most as Hearn on the project. Although Applenu’s own twelve-hour days had him exhausted, Austin and/or Hearn never faltered. He even squeezed in time to party and spend some of his new-found wealth on a red Porsche Cayman. He knew how to party, and thanks to him, the former Ian Deby was no longer a virgin. That status changed in New York after their first meeting with Sherbani. After that, Austin introduced him to Patricia Hunter, a nice bit of stuff he had begun sleeping with on a semi-regular basis.
    Simultaneously with designing the bombs, Hearn worked to acquire the bomb material. For that, Sherbani and Hearn brought in Bill Lormes, who Hearn described as a Russian ex-KGB officer who now “managed various enterprises,” one of which was truck hijacking.
    Applenu participated in the meetings to devise hijacking plans. The first part of the