[49112] in Cypherpunks
RE: Sometimes ya just gotta nuke em
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Informat)
Sat Feb 3 14:51:04 1996
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 8:33:05 -0500 (EST)
From: "A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security" <PADGETT@hobbes.orl.mmc.com>
To: tcmay@got.net
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
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
