Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
> . . . since otherwise Italy would have developed the bomb … had Fermi and > others not been forced to leave by racists. > Italy MIGHT have, not would have. Frankly, I doubt they would have. It was a tremendous undertaking. It required a gigantic infrastructure that at one point was consuming a significant fraction of all U.S. electricity. I doubt any country other than the U.S. could have done it in the 1930s or 40s. Just knowing the principles of fission was not enough to make a bomb. You had to master many other subjects. - Jed
