Posted on 06/19/2023 4:40:49 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
It was 70 years ago that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for espionage, accused of providing classified information about atomic bomb technology to the Soviet Union.
What was the charge against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a New York couple, were charged with conspiracy to commit espionage, specifically for their alleged involvement in passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.
What evidence was presented against the Rosenbergs during their trial?
The main evidence presented against the Rosenbergs was the testimonies of several witnesses, including Ethel Rosenberg's brother, David Greenglass. Greenglass, a former machinist at the Los Alamos laboratory, claimed that he provided Julius with information about the atomic bomb design. Other evidence included intercepted Soviet intelligence messages and testimonies of cooperating witnesses.
What is the ongoing debate about the guilt of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? Decades after their execution, the guilt of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg remains a subject of ongoing debate. Some argue that the evidence presented against the couple was insufficient and that their trial was influenced by anti-Communist hysteria.
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“Any suggestions Madam?”
For cads ... hmmm...
There’s such a long list, it’s hard to pick just one!
It is my calling ...
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A couple of comments on your #58 ...
According to some stuff I recently read (wish I could recall sources)
There was a partially assembled fourth bomb in early August, don't recall whether it was a plutonium or uranium bomb. Pres. Truman explicitly reserved its completion and deployment to his own authority. It was never sent forward. Also, we were many weeks, rather than many months from serial mass production.
The Trinity gadget was a plutonium implosion bomb, and a test for Fat Man to ensure that the design would actually work. The simultaneous detonation of a whole bunch of high explosive "lenses" was and is a tricky business. They got it right the first time.
Little Boy was a uranium gun device, and everybody "knew" that it would work properly. Its detonation over Hiroshima was essentially its test.
They had more. It would have been a few weeks to make another few
Poor Julius and Ethell. They were just trying to create a multipolar world.
Gin and vermouth. That was my dad’s go-to drink. I didn’t care for them, but I had a shaker and martini glasses for when he visited me. I always made sure to have fresh vermouth and a jar of jumbo olives when Dad was heading down for a visit.
I’d have Belvedere vodka and soda with a lime wedge. I did like an olive that had soaked in the martini, so Dad would stick two of ‘em in his drink when I was there. 🫒 🫒
Now there is a reason to have a holiday.
The fourth one was being prepped for a delivery to Japan when they surrendered.
We had more in the pipeline and could have been churning them out by September.
Groves expected to have another “Fat Man” atomic bomb ready for use on 19 August, with three more in September and a further three in October;[90] a second Little Boy bomb (using U-235) would not be available until December 1945.[235][236] On 10 August, he sent a memorandum to Marshall in which he wrote that “the next bomb ... should be ready for delivery on the first suitable weather after 17 or 18 August.” Marshall endorsed the memo with the hand-written comment, “It is not to be released over Japan without express authority from the President”,[90] something Truman had requested that day. This modified the previous order that the target cities were to be attacked with atomic bombs “as made ready”.[237] There was already discussion in the War Department about conserving the bombs then in production for Operation Downfall, and Marshall suggested to Stimson that the remaining cities on the target list be spared attack with atomic bombs.[238]
Two more Fat Man assemblies were readied, and scheduled to leave Kirtland Field for Tinian on 11 and 14 August,[239] and Tibbets was ordered by LeMay to return to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to collect them.[240] At Los Alamos, technicians worked 24 hours straight to cast another plutonium core.[241] Although cast, it still needed to be pressed and coated, which would take until 16 August.[242] Therefore, it could have been ready for use on 19 August. Unable to reach Marshall, Groves ordered on his own authority on 13 August that the core should not be shipped.
I read somewhere that the Soviets already had the most important secret about fission bombs — the fact that they actually worked.
Uh, no there wasn’t a fourth. Go to wyzant to find the facts.
Nope. Go to wyzant and learn the facts.
I got the facts.
Then why are you afraid to go to the site I mentioned?
Sorry but the historical record is clear- there was no third bomb.
You got your facts I got mine.
Neither one of us can make up our own facts. Do the research There was NO third bomb.
U... well that’s your tough luck chum, neither one of can affect the outcome of history.
There was NO third bomb.
I am sorry that you do not want to believe it but reality remains.
Oh and yes we were ready to start churning even more bombs.
Russia, who was only being held up by our shipping massive quantities of food and weapons to them would have fallen. It was probably a mistake to give them a damn thing but Roosevelt the Commie was always a sucker for fascist states.
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