.@wellerstein @curiouswavefn - FAIL! Herken repeated the 'only two bombs' myth, which is utterly false.
http://www.dannen.com/decision/bomb-rate.html …
My friend Gregg Herken has a nice piece on WaPo: Five Myths About the Atomic Bomb:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-atomic-bomb/2015/07/31/32dbc15c-3620-11e5-b673-1df005a0fb28_story.html?postshare=5681438364627105 …
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@GeneDannen@curiouswavefn Well, it would be 3 bombs in Aug., yeah. And Groves' predicted production rates may have not been right post-Aug. -
@GeneDannen@curiouswavefn (Hanford did not perform up to spec even by late 1945, because of the graphite expansion problem.) -
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@wellerstein@curiouswavefn Yes, I know. Wigner and Szilard had predicted Hanford's problems. Wigner Disease and the Szilard Complication.
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@wellerstein Nice piece. The most comprehensive account of atomic myths I have read is Ward Wilson's though.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wellerstein@curiouswavefn Herken also wrong in claim that a demonstration bomb might be a dud. Failure chance of uranium bomb negligibleThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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