forum for week of 19 September

I think Professor Morton is accurate in his reference to Clifford's Principle that the use of the weasel-word 'sufficient' might be a give away, for anyone to believe anything in terms of evidence. In the race to develop the atomic bomb, Brigadier General Leslie Groves had Manhattan Project responsibility. The plutonium bomb technology [synthetic fuel] was first tested. The first bomb dropped was an uranium bomb. The actual dropping of Little Boy, the first bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, was the test. A decision related to Groves beliefs. The result was only two bombs resulted in Japan's unconditional surrender. A large number of military lives were saved, through action, without evidence, the Little Boy bomb would actually work. James Milligan