[49113] in Cypherpunks
RE: Sometimes ya just gotta nuke em
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Sat Feb 3 15:13:41 1996
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 12:12:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: "A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security" <PADGETT@hobbes.orl.mmc.com>
Cc: tcmay@got.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <960203083305.2020cd29@hobbes.orl.mmc.com>
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?
