From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Edward Teller, 1908-2003 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:30:05 -0500
<<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/obituaries/10TELL.html?hp>>
On a less Wibberly note... :)
The final two paragraphs of this obituary were interesting to me.
"While, unlike many atomic scientists, Dr. Teller did not argue against dropping the bomb on Japanese cities, he repeatedly said afterward that doing so had been a mistake. Far better, he maintained, would have been to fire a bomb in the evening high enough above Tokyo to spare the city but to flood it in blinding light."
Would this scenario have been possible? This might have been difficult to pull off physically. I can also If we only had a limited number of bombs, this option wouldn't necessarily have been considered realistic. But do any of the physicists or materials engineers on the list think this might have been do-able without killing the crew of the Enola Gay in the process?
Jon
Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com
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