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On 9/24/2024 11:19 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On 21 Sep 2024 18:42:37 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> 
>> Knowing that the thing is possible is the hard part... from that part
>> working out how to do it isn't so hard.  And maybe there is a still
>> easier way to do it that hasn't been found yet.
> 
> That's not the entire story - an hour after the Hiroshima blast,
> Japanese physics professors knew what had hit them and were amazed -
> not at the physics but rather that the United States had managed to
> dedicate the production capacity (which the Japanese had estimated and
> told the Japanese government they couldn't dedicate that much
> production capacity without breaking the rest of the military) to do
> so in wartime.

Admiral Yamamoto had tried to warn his government of the size of the 
American industrial capacity but far too many either didn't want to 
believe him or literally couldn't comprehend it.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.