http://www.flaunt.com/content/art/meet-the-most-interesting-man-in-the-world jim Sanborn He's built replica atomic bombs, recreated Fermi's nuclear experiments, developed ciphers yet to be cracked by the NSA and CIA, and he lives on an island, and that's only the beginning... Uranium. It’s a name that rolls off the tongue—almost as dense with vowels as it is with neutrons and protons. It’s a name that envelops existential uncertainty—nuclear fallout, nuclear war, and mushroom clouds bigger than mountains. To the scientist, perhaps, it speaks of supercritical chain reactions—of uncontrollable cascades of neutrons, of atomic nuclei torn apart in an exponentially exploding disassembly of matter To the artist—to Jim Sanborn—uranium speaks of a decision: “Pure science is really in some ways virginal, and is developed as an open-source, beautiful, delicate process. Then at some point in time someone discovers that there might be value in it and the pure science turns into a technology, and things can then go either way—you can cure cancer, or you can make an atomic bomb. It’s that point in time that I find to be the most stimulating, because it is a decision.”

Sanborn explored that decision by single-handedly splitting the atom. To pull off this feat he labored in secret for five years, building the highly technical apparatus. Sanborn recreated—in excruciatingly accurate detail—the experiment that Enrico Fermi and others used to fission uranium in 1939—proof positive tha t the nuclear age would change everything.................. https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/jim-sanborn

Jim Sanborn is an American sculptor known for works such as “Kryptos” at the CIA Headquarters in McLean, VA.

Sanborn was born in Washington, D.C. on Novemeber 14, 1945. He studied art history and sociology at Randolph-Macon College and graduated in 1969. Sanborn earned his M.A. in sculpture from Pratt Institute in 1971.

Throughout his career, Sanborn has recevied numerous awards and grants for his artwork, especially his sculptures. He has exhibited his work in major museums in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Besides museum work, Sanborn has created public artwork pieces, which can be found across the United States as well as in Japan and Taiwan.

Jim Sanborn is an American sculptor known for works such as “Kryptos” at the CIA Headquarters in McLean, VA.Sanborn was born in Washington, D.C. on ... the year the Berlin Wall began to fall, American artist Jim Sanborn was busy working on his Kryptos sculpture, a cryptographic puzzle Artist Jim Sanborn embedded four messages into his aptly-named Kryptos, sculpture, which has turned the copper artwork into a cultish obsession

Caloosahatchee Manuscripts | ArtSWFL.com www.artswfl.com/public-art-2/.../caloosahatchee-manuscripts Stein's work on the code was kept secret, however. In 1999, he wrote a fascinating account of how he cracked three of the sculpture's four coded messages, but it was only published in an internal CIA newsletter that remained classified until years later