Excellent article - thanks for posting.
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Wouldn’t be a bad idea to take in bright foreigners—especially after they have trained at American schools.
Its not such a bright idea to take in people who immediately and permanently go on the dole. As has happened in California. Currently 10 billion dollars annually goes out of the state treasury to pay for illegals various issues.
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A study was performed about the men that worked with Fermi to see if there was an increased incidence of neoplasia in those exposed to radiation and the fission. The study found that there were no more incidences of cancer in the workers that helped Fermi than there is in the general population. The fact Fermi passed away with bladder cancer ignited the speculation that it was possible.
“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. “
Tremendous article ... thanks for posting.
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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