=E2=80=9CTotally absorbed in =E2=80=98Oppenheimer,=E2=80=99 a dense, talkie= >, tense film partly about the bomb, mostly about how doomed we are,=E2=80= >=9D
1. I'm more interested in the mechanics of creating the bomb than anything=
else.
2. Boo hoo. Oppenheimer was cut-out of the project after WW2 and security=
revoked. He made TOO many noises OPPOSING the project and his pals were m=
ostly communists. We saw how they betrayed the West by giving away secrets=
to their darling Soviets.
3. Character studies are fine, but make it one or the other. I'd have pre= >ferred a technical treatise because the last few programs/movies about "the=
bomb" were turgid DRAMAS dealing with people's emotions NOT their intellec=
ts. They had the most brilliant minds on the PLANET all in one place. SHOW=
THAT!!
“Totally absorbed in ‘Oppenheimer,’ a dense, talkie, tense film partly about the bomb, mostly about how doomed we are,”
1. I'm more interested in the mechanics of creating the bomb than
anything else.
2. Boo hoo. Oppenheimer was cut-out of the project after WW2 and
security revoked. He made TOO many noises OPPOSING the project and his
pals were mostly communists. We saw how they betrayed the West by
giving away secrets to their darling Soviets.
3. Character studies are fine, but make it one or the other. I'd have preferred a technical treatise because the last few programs/movies
about "the bomb" were turgid DRAMAS dealing with people's emotions NOT
their intellects. They had the most brilliant minds on the PLANET all
in one place. SHOW THAT!!
On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:26:18 -0700, RichA wrote:
“Totally absorbed in ‘Oppenheimer,’ a dense, talkie, tense film partly
about the bomb, mostly about how doomed we are,”
1. I'm more interested in the mechanics of creating the bomb thanIf you want to know the science and technology of the bomb, you
anything else.
2. Boo hoo. Oppenheimer was cut-out of the project after WW2 and
security revoked. He made TOO many noises OPPOSING the project and his pals were mostly communists. We saw how they betrayed the West by
giving away secrets to their darling Soviets.
3. Character studies are fine, but make it one or the other. I'd have preferred a technical treatise because the last few programs/movies
about "the bomb" were turgid DRAMAS dealing with people's emotions NOT their intellects. They had the most brilliant minds on the PLANET all
in one place. SHOW THAT!!
have to read books. It turns out, though, that you can learn the
drama involved in developing the technology by listening to
interviews of the scientists at the Atomic Heritage
Foundation website at https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/voices/
I recently read the transcripts of almost all the interviews
there that had anything to do with Hanford because my dad worked
there. The interviews reveal the give and take among the personnel
that is absent from official accounts.
Charles Packer http://cpacker.org mailboxATcpacker.org
In <ee565568-7578-443f...@googlegroups.com> RichA <rande...@gmail.com> writes:
=E2=80=9CTotally absorbed in =E2=80=98Oppenheimer,=E2=80=99 a dense, talkie=
, tense film partly about the bomb, mostly about how doomed we are,=E2=80= >=9D
1. I'm more interested in the mechanics of creating the bomb than anything=
else.
2. Boo hoo. Oppenheimer was cut-out of the project after WW2 and security=
revoked. He made TOO many noises OPPOSING the project and his pals were m=
ostly communists. We saw how they betrayed the West by giving away secrets=
to their darling Soviets.
3. Character studies are fine, but make it one or the other. I'd have pre= >ferred a technical treatise because the last few programs/movies about "the=
bomb" were turgid DRAMAS dealing with people's emotions NOT their intellec=
ts. They had the most brilliant minds on the PLANET all in one place. SHOW=
THAT!!
[damn googlegroups uckedfay up formatting]
Dunno if you have any way of getting hold of this tv series,
but it was pretty well done:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_(TV_series)
Books are about the only source to get that kind of info, and government >reports. I've probably read 20 or 30 on nuclear programs, American
and Soviet.
Things like how they had to borrow tons of silver from the U.S. treasury to
make the calutrons to separate the U-235 from raw uranium and when the war was over, they managed to return almost all the silver with little loss.
“Totally absorbed in ‘Oppenheimer,’ a dense, talkie, tense film partly about the bomb, mostly about how doomed we are,”brilliant minds on the PLANET all in one place. SHOW THAT!!
1. I'm more interested in the mechanics of creating the bomb than anything else.
2. Boo hoo. Oppenheimer was cut-out of the project after WW2 and security revoked. He made TOO many noises OPPOSING the project and his pals were mostly communists. We saw how they betrayed the West by giving away secrets to their darling Soviets.
3. Character studies are fine, but make it one or the other. I'd have preferred a technical treatise because the last few programs/movies about "the bomb" were turgid DRAMAS dealing with people's emotions NOT their intellects. They had the most
On Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 10:26:20 PM UTC-4, RichA wrote:brilliant minds on the PLANET all in one place. SHOW THAT!!
“Totally absorbed in ‘Oppenheimer,’ a dense, talkie, tense film partly about the bomb, mostly about how doomed we are,”
1. I'm more interested in the mechanics of creating the bomb than anything else.
2. Boo hoo. Oppenheimer was cut-out of the project after WW2 and security revoked. He made TOO many noises OPPOSING the project and his pals were mostly communists. We saw how they betrayed the West by giving away secrets to their darling Soviets.
3. Character studies are fine, but make it one or the other. I'd have preferred a technical treatise because the last few programs/movies about "the bomb" were turgid DRAMAS dealing with people's emotions NOT their intellects. They had the most
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