17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Sat, 3 Feb 1996, A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security wrote:
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).
So secret even Gen. Groves was unaware of it- he was so misled that he thought he would have the next Fat Man finished on the 12th or 13th August 1945, and ready for dropping on the 17th/18th of August. PerryDeflector: Guess they must have used some pretty funky codes eh?