“Over 130,000 people were employed by the Manhattan Project, yet the Germans never found out about it. In particular, they never found out about Fermi’s experiment or the plutonium-producing graphite-moderated fission reactors that were set up in Hanford, Wash., to put Fermi’s discovery into action on an industrial scale. Because of this, the Nazi atomic-bomb effort continued to rely on an incorrect conclusion by Werner Heisenberg that graphite could not be used as a moderator to enable natural uranium to achieve a critical chain reaction, and that, instead, heavy water is required. “
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This passage I repeat is most amazing. Americans understood how tenuous the threads that information security hangs on at that time.
This passage I repeat is most amazing. Americans understood how tenuous the threads that information security hangs on at that time.
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of course the russians knew because they had their spies all over the place.