At 8:33 2/3/96, "A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security" <PADGETT@hobbe wrote:
Tim rote:
At 4:12 AM 2/3/96, Rich Graves wrote:
Who holds up the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as great victories against tyranny? Since you ask, I do.
And the biggest secret of the war was that "Fat Man" was the *last* A-bomb we had or could build for about a year (had taken several *years* to separate enough fissionable material for the three via two entirely different processes).
To me this is the great strength of the USA: given a theoretical problem, we will develop a hundred different solutions, try them all in parallel, and at least one will work.
I agree - Not only were there two different separation methods but the two bombs dropped on Japan were of different designs (I think that the Hiroshima bomb was the same design as the land test version and the Nagasaki one was the untested design [so that if used, there would have been a tested design for the first drop]).