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It was a critical moment in time where it mattered greatly which country completed a certain physics centered project. Other physicists were greater in their a
by LanceH 3y ago
It was a critical moment in time where it mattered greatly which country completed a certain physics centered project. Other physicists were greater in their accomplishments, but were any so timely in the necessity of their accomplishments (though his may have been mostly managerial, they needed to be done by a physicist).
- defrost 3y ago> but were any so timely in the necessity of their accomplishments The physicists of the UK MAUD committee and Tube Alloys who worked for several years to convince the US that a bomb was theoretically possible and economically feasible (just) and that the Germans and Japanese were taking the challenge seriously? It took multiple approaches to convince the US nuclear scientists of the time.
- tashoecraft 3y agoWith hindsight we can see it wasn't timely as no other nation was close or even could accomplish it.