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From: zdenek@heathcliff.columbia.edu (Zdenek Radouch)
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Subject: Re: Military funding in maths
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Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 20:21:58 EST
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Summary: Arithmetic, too.

In article <193@spectrix.UUCP> clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes:

>Japan could have fought on (considering how more atomic bombs the US had 
>after Nagasaki - namely zero) for a while (a year or two).

Nonsense. At the end of July there were five Fat Man cases and a plutonium
for one of them, and three Little Boy cases and an uranium for almost two
of them just at the bomber base on Tinian. Additional bomb metal was being
shipped from the US. The shipments were stopped for obvious reasons on
August 13th.

zdenek

P.S.
It is not always intelligence and cryptography what determines the turning
point. Sometimes it's simple arithmetic. 

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