At 02:46 pm 16/06/2006 -0400, Stephen wrote:
> http://www.rexresearch.com/coler/colerb~1.htm > In any case, I find it very hard to understand why this wasn't pursued > at the time. Of course, the Germans were busy losing the war at the > time of the original experiments, and afterwards the British were trying > to put their country back together, but it's still peculiar that nobody > thought it important enough to attempt to go farther with it. I think that's a pretty good summary of why nothing was done. Plus the fact that, as I remember it (being in my teens then) everyone's mind was concentrated on the prospect of unlimited cheap atomic power and still unaware of its downside. Frank
