Tight deadline. Great funding. Challenging project.

You want a doomsday device / virus... now? Like.. today? Bitch I have comp time to burn before the end of fiscal, you gonna wait. (Terrorist alway threaten the family or kill co-workers.. never bring in a $15,000 a night hooker or the girl from high-school who snubbed the science guy with her on a dog leash in a bomb vest. Real threat.. "24 hours, or we release your browser history.. for the last 15 years. You're a sick man ,btw, so we know you can make this happen."

Ironman did it.

That’s pretty much the plot set up for Back to The Future. The “Libyan terrorists” wanted a nuclear bomb, Doc Brown stole their plutonium and gave them a shiny casing full of pinball machine parts.