From: Spike Jones (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 21:24:29 MDT
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> I tried looking up the oft-repeated story about the Manhattan Project and
> the maybe-we'll-ignite-the-atmosphere possibility said to have been
> raised. I can't find a reputable reference...
Richard Rhode's excellent Pulitzer Prize winner, The Making of the
Atomic Bomb, p. 418. Great story! Can you imagine doing the
calculations at the last minute, then announcing to those gathered
"These calculations show that it is highly unlikely that this blast
will ignite the atmosphere, thus destroying humanity and indeed
all land-based life on this planet..."
spike
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