Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mmm.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mmm!cipher
From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.sci
Subject: Re: Manhattan project and atmospheric ignition
Message-ID: <524@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 17:09:10 EST
Article-I.D.: mmm.524
Posted: Tue Feb 18 17:09:10 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Feb-86 04:19:30 EST
References: <1987@orca.UUCP> <916@h-sc1.UUCP> <1115@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn.
Lines: 26
Xref: watmath net.physics:3872 net.sci:540

In article <1115@lsuc.UUCP> msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>    ... long study of the possibility had put him in a position
>    to handicap the odds on two contingencies:  "I invite bets", he
>    said, "against first the destruction of all human life and second
>    just that of human life in New Mexico".

This was a "no-risk" bet, since if Fermi lost he would no longer be
around to pay it off.

>    [Gen.] Groves listened frowning.  He had got up a series of press
>    releases to cover all the eventualities he could foresee...

Likewise, in the first case a press release would be superfluous.
"In a posthumous press release, General Groves declined to comment on
last week's destruction of all human life."

It would be interesting to see what he would have had to say about the
destruction of New Mexico.  "And so I said to him, I said, how many
times have I told you not to play with matches?  And _now_ see what
you've done!  But there was no answer."
-- 

 /''`\						Andre Guirard
([]-[])						High Weasel
 \ x /	   speak no evil			ihnp4!mmm!cipher
  `-'