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PoindexterOglethorpe

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41. Now reading The Berlin Project

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 10:13 PM

Jan 2018

by Gregory Benford.

From the inside flap:

Karl P. Cohen, a chemist and a mathematician who is a junior partner of the Manhattan Project has discovered an alternate solution for creating the first atomic bomb, but his plan is shot down as other more autust personages -- household names even then -- preferred another method. But time has shown us that this chemist was right.

What would have happened if the atom bomb was ready in time to be used as the Allies invaded on D-day?

And here's the kicker. Karl Cohen (1913-2012) was Benford's father-in-law.

I'm about thirty pages in, and I've already called my son the astronomer/physicist and suggested he read the book.

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