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Re: A-bomb history - cbelt3 - 03-08-2022
I works with a number of WWII vets in the defense industry. And one guy who worked on the instrumentation team on the Manhattan project. Highly intelligent highly motivated people.
Re: A-bomb history - ztirffritz - 03-08-2022
Malcolm Gladwell did a TED talk about the Norden Bombsight.
https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_the_strange_tale_of_the_norden_bombsight/transcript?language=en
Ombligo wrote:
The $2B spent on the Manhatten project was the second most expensive program as the development of the B-29 bomber ran close to $3B. In a close third, the Norden bombsight cost $1.5B. Those are all 1945 dollars, today that would be $31B (Manhatten) , $47B (B29) and $24B (Norden) or $101B total - the cost of a single B1 bomber (half the projected cost of the B21 or ten F35 fighters.
All three were instrumental in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Re: A-bomb history - Lux Interior - 03-08-2022
pdq wrote:
Just curious - does it have a Richard Feynman character in it?
Surely You're Joking?
Re: A-bomb history - Mr Downtown - 03-08-2022
In part because my best friend from high school went to work at Los Alamos, and I later mapped the town, I've long been intrigued by the "secret city up on the mesa." There's a local-history photo book they sell at the Bradbury Museum, and Peter Hales's book Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project, which is a nationwide, scholarly overview of the three atomic towns (Los Alamos, Hanford, and Oak Ridge). As it happens, just this week I'm finishing Jennet Conant's 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos, a somewhat more personal memoir of Los Alamos based on the journals of Dorothy McKibbin, Oppenheimer's executive secretary based in Santa Fe.
Re: A-bomb history - pdq - 03-09-2022
Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=pdq]
Just curious - does it have a Richard Feynman character in it?
Surely You're Joking?
Oddly enough, I had never even heard of Feynman until some years back I joined a science book club and they included that book as a free bonus.
What a character.