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To: Hot Tabasco
It should be remembered that when the atomic bomb was built during WW-II, that program was so secretive that even many of the participants were in the dark about what they were working on.

Scientific American figured out something was 'happening' when they got a bunch of subscriptions from a small obscure town in Tennessee (in the early 40's) called Oak Ridge. They kept the secret secret.

16 posted on 07/06/2022 10:16:12 AM PDT by GOPJ (MAGA POWER - - President Trump's endorsement record is 144-10)
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To: GOPJ
Scientific American figured out something was 'happening' when they got a bunch of subscriptions from a small obscure town in Tennessee (in the early 40's) called Oak Ridge. They kept the secret secret.

Much in the same way people knew the stuff was hitting the fan somewhere by the volume of takeout orders for the Whitehouse and/or Pentagon.

35 posted on 07/06/2022 10:53:21 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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