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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.bio
Subject: Re: Manhattan project and atmospheric ignition
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 02:27:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 02:27:09 1986
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Summary: 

A long refutation of the following...

> ... I am not certain
> about the historical development, but it seems to me that *at the
> time* of the first atomic bomb, there was no way to exclude the
> possibility of starting a chain reaction in the atmosphere or ground
> with a reasonable degree of certainty.

...appears in the referenced article, which I have just posted to
net.physics and net.sci.

Mark Brader