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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>SR Ballard<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 16, 2018 1:15 AM<br><b>To:</b> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Interesting book<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In his spare time, a lay person researches the most accurate publically-available book on the bombs dropped on Japan. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/15/atomic-john">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/15/atomic-john</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The book’s simply called “Atomic Bombs”.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Just goes to show that with diligence you can teach yourself anything— even government secrets.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A lot of that is declassified now. Typically 50 years is long enough to keep that stuff secret. If one is really interested in this topic, I do highly recommend Richard Rhodes’ excellent “Making of the Atomic Bomb” for he really did his homework on that one. Lotsa physics in there but it is not out of reach of the non-geek. He really put a lot of the heart and soul into that story.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Feynman has also written a lot about that episode of history.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>