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Re: Hiroshima Marks 60th Anniversary of Atomic Bomb Attack

Andrew Hastings (abh@nospam.acm.org)
Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:25:42 -0500

According to Edward Teller as quoted by John McCarthy, the
miscalculation may have been intentional.

See http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/teller.html.

-Andrew

jtaylor wrote:

> Tony P. <kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net> wrote in message
> news:telecom24.361.15@telecom-digest.org...

>> The Germans were pretty much on their way to having their own atomic
>> weapons.

> The stuff I've read (Farm Hall transcripts, for instance) says no,
> they were working on a pile, not bombs. They miscalculated the amount
> of fissionable material necessary and so thought they could not

> a) get enough;
> b) if not a), get such a big bomb to anywhere it would do them any good.

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