[net.philosophy] Manhattan project and atmospheric ignition

msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) (02/14/86)

A long refutation of the following...

> ... I am not certain
> about the historical development, but it seems to me that *at the
> time* of the first atomic bomb, there was no way to exclude the
> possibility of starting a chain reaction in the atmosphere or ground
> with a reasonable degree of certainty.

...appears in the referenced article, which I have just posted to
net.physics and net.sci.

Mark Brader