Yup.  But in the Manhattan Project, the Ph.D.&#x27;s seemed to get that experience quickly enough.  Besides, where to find people with <i>experience</i> turning chemical goo into blocks of explosive and machining them to fit precisely in a 3D puzzle so that when the 40 or so detonators fired all at once, the explosive would make a nearly perfect spherical wave shrinking down to compress the nuclear fuel?  The guy who did that first in the Manhattan Project did it the first in all of history.