@wellerstein instead of going w/ gaseous diffusion. book, The Berlin Project (2/2):
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-alternate-history-of-the-atomic-age/ …
Re: "we'd have figured it out in 6 months without question" — that seems entirely silly to me? @rscottkemp, thoughts?
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While decision to favor GD over GC not balanced, the U.S.'s GC effort was hopelessly misdirected for ~15 years after Manhattan Project.
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I guess one could state the counterfactual as, "what if it wasn't so misdirected?" — but it's pretty far afield from what happened.
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Speeding up the pile project would have had the same result. Szilard and Wigner fought hard for that.
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Here's an interesting document on Harold Urey's fight for centrifugal separation.pic.twitter.com/ymUMy9eD4J
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