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To: Ilaine who wrote (135163)	6/1/2004 3:20:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Interesting. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in action. Uncertain about how much U235 is needed for a noocular bomb to go bang: <Heisenberg, brilliant theoretician, overestimated the path of travel. Experimentalists Meitner and Frisch did far better; and Frisch's note sent America on the way to building a bomb. Heisenberg's estimate so discouraged the German High Command that they never did undertake serious bomb-building.> The scientists were scared of and disliked the boss so wouldn't perform at their most creative. A bit like Sakaharov got bolshi in the USSR. I'm sure that's a factor in most instances where the boss is a bastard, even if only subconsciously, due to fear. 15 years ago, a colleague and I developed a management theory that it's best to have a highly intelligent boss, with a mean gorilla on a short leash to keep the troop in order. Unfortunately, all too often, the actual management process is to have the mean gorilla in charge, swinging the intelligent guy on the end of the chain, battering the troop with him to keep them in order. In Iraq, we have the latter management process in action. Here's the boss: bushorchimp.com The primary qualification for being the boss is to want very strongly to be the boss. Which is why we get so many Saddams, Stalins, Amins, Maos, and Pots - they just love swinging the smart guys on the end of a rope, or chain. Mqurice