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To: bentway who wrote (271183)2/1/2006 8:23:47 PM
From: Taro  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1584948
 
The US had a slight problem during the Manhattan project time:

It had never been done before!

There was no Internet at the time.

And even if there had been an Internet, no info would have been posted because nobody at that time knew how to build a bomb.

No spies of this world could help you either - because nobody owned to recipe for building a bomb, no where to spy.

All of that changed as soon as the US had invented and built the two bombs based on U235 and Plutonium.

Thus the Soviet Union just lifted the results of the US efforts with China, UK, France to join the club.

Don't even try to compare the efforts required to complete the Manhattan project to what it takes for our days copycats to assemble a nuke.

Taro



To: bentway who wrote (271183)2/1/2006 10:30:26 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1584948
 
The Manhattan Project was 60 years ago. Technology has advanced since then and knowledge is now almost ubiquitous thanks to the web and globalization. You discount those two factors by orders of magnitude.



To: bentway who wrote (271183)2/2/2006 5:41:14 PM
From: AK2004  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1584948
 
JCP

well, the problem here is that France, Germany and Russia are giving a nuclear helping hand to Iran.

-AK