RE: Sometimes ya just gotta nuke em
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
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?
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