Comment by hi_hi

For those interested in this topic I can’t recommend the following book enough.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1127842.Most_Secret_W...

Many of the overarching themes and challenges of dealing with technical problems where you have incomplete information will be familiar to many here.

According to the publications section of his Wikipedia, the book is available for free on archive.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Victor_Jones