From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Brin-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Edward Teller, 1908-2003
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:30:05 -0500
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/obituaries/10TELL.html?hp
On a less Wibberly note... :)
The final two paragraphs of this obituary were interesting to me.
While, unlike many atomic scientists, Dr. Teller did not argue against
dropping the bomb on Japanese cities, he repeatedly said afterward that
doing so had been a mistake. Far better, he maintained, would have been to
fire a bomb in the evening high enough above Tokyo to spare the city but to
flood it in blinding light.
Would this scenario have been possible? This might have been difficult to
pull off physically. I can also If we only had a limited number of bombs,
this option wouldn't necessarily have been considered realistic. But do any
of the physicists or materials engineers on the list think this might have
been do-able without killing the crew of the Enola Gay in the process?
Jon
Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com
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