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("What if" in History - No. 2) July 30, 1943: NEW YORK TIMES breaks "Manhattan Project" story
DFU "what if" in history | orig. July 30, 1943 | Jonathon Risen (fictitious name)

Posted on 12/22/2005 1:00:56 PM PST by doug from upland

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1 posted on 12/22/2005 1:00:57 PM PST by doug from upland
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To: doug from upland

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm.


2 posted on 12/22/2005 1:04:09 PM PST by BlueStateDepression
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To: doug from upland

Hehe. Pretty close to the truth if the same people running the NY slimes were around then.


3 posted on 12/22/2005 1:05:36 PM PST by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: doug from upland

Off topic.

Check out this letter from the Assistant Attorney General to Senators Durbin and Rockefeller regarding the leak and NSA spying matter.

It was in a PDF file, so the formatting is a little funky.

Solid letter.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1545567/posts?page=16#16


4 posted on 12/22/2005 1:06:02 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: doug from upland

Another costly Pentagon boondoggle. That thing will never work. Scientists say so.


5 posted on 12/22/2005 1:07:59 PM PST by Snickersnee (Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
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To: doug from upland

The problem as I see it is that IF those of the left acknowledge there IS a true threat present requiring the War on Terror they are out of a job forever (or close to it) as they truly have nothing to offer or argue before the American people that will give them any continued credibility, hence their unrelenting attacks on Bush and those in his administration to distract the American people. It must REALLY suck to be a dimboRAT!!


6 posted on 12/22/2005 1:09:50 PM PST by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: kaehurowing; hole_n_one

Ping


7 posted on 12/22/2005 1:12:01 PM PST by doug from upland (Hasta la vista, Tookie)
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To: doug from upland

If I remember correctly there were reporters from NYT and other papers present at Trinity, sworn to secrecy until given the OK from the USG.

How times have changed.


8 posted on 12/22/2005 1:13:12 PM PST by DBrow
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To: doug from upland

I don't know.

Both the Germans and the Japanese were working on their own and Russia wasn't really in any shape to do so at that point in the war.....

I don't think it would have done much except confirm to our enemies what our intentions were.....

Which is, of course, just as BAD as anything else.


9 posted on 12/22/2005 1:13:29 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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Roosevelt was very woried about the work Germany had already done in this area. Our enemies, of course, would have known we were working on it, particulary since Fermi defected when he came here to accept the Nobel prize in physics. But today's reporters from the NY TIMES would certainly have given every detail possible had they been there.


10 posted on 12/22/2005 1:16:51 PM PST by doug from upland (Hasta la vista, Tookie)
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To: doug from upland

yep probably.....

like I said, just as bad, but maybe not from a secret part but more from an intentions part.


11 posted on 12/22/2005 1:17:36 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: doug from upland

You rock, Doug..suggest you e-mail it to Mark Levin..He'd be better off reading this than talking to imbecilic libs..


12 posted on 12/22/2005 1:18:06 PM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: doug from upland

I dont disagree with the NYT's decision to run the story.. we do have freedom of the press ...the problem i have is with the idiot who leaked this information to NYT and should be investigated throughly.


13 posted on 12/22/2005 1:18:16 PM PST by Element187
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To: Element187

"we do have freedom of the press"

This is a right that is balanced by its grave responsibilities.


14 posted on 12/22/2005 1:21:44 PM PST by DBrow
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To: doug from upland

This "Manhattan Engineering District" project is a risky scheme, an expensive boondoggle that could destroy mankind. I don't know how the family of Prescott Bush convinced FDR to do this, but the Bush Family Criminal Conspiracy should be made to face the most severe of charges forthwith. For all we know, a fission reaction could run out of control and burn off our atmosphere!

FDR needs to root out the irresponsible, 'swarthy'--and probably fascist--cabal within the Pentagon that started this fiasco and get back to work helping Uncle Joe crush the hun.


15 posted on 12/22/2005 1:21:45 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Element187
I dont disagree with the NYT's decision to run the story.. we do have freedom of the press ...the problem i have is with the idiot who leaked this information to NYT and should be investigated throughly.
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And there is the problem. If we had a plan to capture Osama or Zarqawi on Saturday, you would not have a problem with the TIMES writing the story. That is just incredible. Remind me never to trust you with something important.

16 posted on 12/22/2005 1:24:56 PM PST by doug from upland (Hasta la vista, Tookie)
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To: doug from upland

This is awful. What could the United States do with such a weapon? What would the world think of us if we used it against Germany or Japan? Surely it would only make the enemy fight that much harder against us, and embolden their resistance. And if the wrong administration got their hands on it, they might even use it against American citizens.

This must be stopped immediately. I have contacted the German and Japanese governments and they have assured me that any research they are carrying out on nuclear fission is purely for power generation, and not for the development of these awful weapons.

Please, Mr. Roosevelt. Stop this madness at once, before we are destroyed!


17 posted on 12/22/2005 1:25:22 PM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: doug from upland
Doug...

Very poor analogy.

Citing the Manhattan project where more than a dozen of the inside people working for the government were reporting to Moscow daily, hardly equates with a newspaper story.

If it is indeed an acceptable analogy, then one has to wonder just who on the inside is again working both sides of the street.

18 posted on 12/22/2005 1:26:10 PM PST by cynicom
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To: Petronski

FDR needs to share the technology with our comrades, the glorius ussr. {OH, nevermind, our friends will take care of that after we know it works}.


19 posted on 12/22/2005 1:26:33 PM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: SlowBoat407

I think this "What if" series is going to create some good mocking opportunities of those fools who unfortunately share oxygen with us.


20 posted on 12/22/2005 1:26:52 PM PST by doug from upland (Hasta la vista, Tookie)
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