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To: c.hinton who wrote (83090)	3/9/2002 9:26:42 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116844

No, I never even knew it had been used. Were you aware that the bombs were built in Canada, not in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and they were built by scientists from U of T, not Univ. of Chicago, whose average age was 23 and that half of them were women? And to top it all off the bombs were built from plutonium from a reactor built in Canada in 1943. And that reactor was supplied electricity to a town. Much of the Manhattan project was a cover story. Nice fiction, but not real. USA did not have the materials to build a bomb in 1943. The project was started by MI6 and had its roots in discoveries made by Lise Meisner in germany in 1924. Parts of it were underway by 1926. A heavy water plant in Nova Scotia was built first. Then the Uranium had to be mined from Gilbert Labine's Eldorado Mine on the shores of great Slave Lake. (He used to visit the house back in the 50's when he was involved in the Denison rush.) The later the Uranium had to be made into Yellow Cake, then fuel for fuel rods - straight U238. The Plutonium, the spent material from the nuclear reactor, then had to machined into sub critical massses. Plutonium will not compress effectively with a chemical explosion. It's extreme heat and pressure will fizzle the bomb out before it can explode properly. No two stage chemical explosion can keep up to it. Straight enriched U235, will not explode as it is not hot enough. It needs a plutonium trigger. (That is how you know the diffusion plant stories and Hanford are myths. Even if the US had enriched Uranium, which they didn't, they could not produce a bomb. They didn't have the Uranium, as they had not yet built Oakridge, and they did not have a reactor til 47, so they could not come up with the necessary plutonium. They simply did not have time in late 43 to rush in a bomb with Uranium. You read some books by journalists in the 50's and it has them building it out of plutonium, with true to life stories about machining the stuff and it catching fire. So if they had plutonium, where did they get it? It is only made in nuclear reactors. The guy who died making the bomb, died in Rolphton Ontario. Kind of strange to haul the plutonium there,(co-incidentally the site of Canada's first nuclear reactor), if they were making the bomb in New Mexico.) So how did they compress the bomb? It all works out. It's a mystery, but it works out. EC<:-}