How much thickness for sphere to withstand atmospheric pressure?

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Hollow sphere withstanding the atmospheric pressure
Imagine a hollow sphere made of a material with high elasticity constant(e.g. steel). How much thickness should it have to prevent it from crushing when the air inside is pumped out?
Is it valid to use Lame solution to quantify the answer? What about Finite Element Analysis?
 
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