From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 04:35:10 +0800
To: "A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security" <PADGETT@hobbes.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: RE: Sometimes ya just gotta nuke em
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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?