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> Niels Bohr dismissed the concept of A-bombs for WWII early on, he thought "you would have to turn the county into a factory". Same thing with breaking enigma
by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> Niels Bohr dismissed the concept of A-bombs for WWII early on, he thought "you would have to turn the county into a factory".
Same thing with breaking enigma and purple. There are some funny contemporaneous enemy quotations floating around about how it would be impossible to break the codes without huge buildings full of computers, which is what was in fact done.