NODE 280beb78RE: Sometimes ya just gotta nuke em
"A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security" <PADGETT@hobbes.orl.mmc.com>Sun, 4 Feb 1996 04:07:02 +0800
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
NODE b958b91aRE: Sometimes ya just gotta nuke em
Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>Sun, 4 Feb 1996 04:35:10 +0800
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?