17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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. Warmly, Padgett