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In the letter he suggested that it might be used to cause significant damage to a port. He had no idea that it would be (1) anywhere near as destructive as it
by gambling8nt 18y ago
In the letter he suggested that it might be used to cause significant damage to a port. He had no idea that it would be (1) anywhere near as destructive as it was, or (2) small enough or light enough to drop from aircraft rather than only being used in either naval warfare (where death tolls would be much less) or as a fixed weapon acting as a disincentive to invasion (building them along some border so that an overland aggressor would surely be destroyed--essentially, a much more powerful minefield).
- tibix 18y agoThat's right. Have you seen Copenhagen (a movie produced for TV)? It shows Niels Bohr arguing with Heisenberg about the atomic bomb... it's a really good movie about a meeting between them that nobody knows what was it about.
- jimbokun 18y agoSaw the stage version, it was excellent.
- DabAsteroid 18y agoThe full letter is scanned-in here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_letter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_letter