From: "A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security" <PADGETT@hobbes.orl.mmc.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 04:07:02 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net
Subject: RE: Sometimes ya just gotta nuke em
Message-ID: <960203083305.2020cd29@hobbes.orl.mmc.com>
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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