@wellerstein USSR translated into Russian and printed 30,000 copies in early 1946. Along with spies' info, it helped guide Soviet program.
Thus the irony: the Smyth Report was a secret history, but contained no actual secrets. Which meant it intentionally missed a lot.
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@SchwartzCNS It is a useful answer to the question, "how, at a large scale, should you organize a Manhattan Project?"
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@wellerstein My understanding is that it also helped Soviet scientists figure out what _not_ to do, allowing them avoid some dead ends. -
@SchwartzCNS They followed the dead ends anyway — they didn't trust the report, or their spies, entirely.
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@wellerstein think this was mentioned in Rhodes book, but only real secret was that it worked. After that was out, can work out many details -
@bcbroom That is the line that Szilard et al. used. It depends on what one means by "secret" and "details."
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