Atomic Bomb Memo: atomic bomb and the kind of information which they were to speak to the press about
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Interestingly, one day later, August 12, 1945, the government's release of the Smyth Report rendered much of that guidance moot. (Cc:
@wellerstein)http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/08/15/los-alamos-and-the-smyth-report/ …
Actually most of that guidance would still apply — Smyth Report mostly within it (doesn't give info on purity, enrichment efficiency, bomb design). Smyth Report meant in part to be very detailed guidance on what could and couldn't be said.
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I stand corrected. What I meant was that a lot more detail about most of those issues would have been available the very next day.
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Sure, some of them. They were worried about accidental leaks though — someone not realizing that, say, the fact that plutonium was in the Nagasaki bomb was safe, but not realizing that they couldn't say "and you could fit it in a tiny box only this big!" was not.pic.twitter.com/J5SWWZzK8L
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Wonder what ever happened to those original little core boxes. Any information on where the ended up?
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