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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: SURELY YOU'RE JOKING, MR. FEYNMAN
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Date: Sat, 26-Apr-86 03:35:57 EDT
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In article <7146@kestrel.ARPA> Tom Pressburger writes:
>In article <13254@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Tom Tedrick writes:
>> >	   SURELY YOU'RE JOKING, MR. FEYNMAN by Richard P. Feynman
>> 
>> [if] you are very moralistic or committed to
>> some political cause, I suggest not reading it, unless you
>> want to get angry.
>
>I don't understand why either of these things would matter very much
>in one's reaction to the book.

One of the chapters on WWII at Los Alamos appeared in a popular science
magazine, and among the letters to the editor that were printed later
was one heavily condemning Feynman for not taking nuclear war seriously.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720