tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post114832523457877283..comments2024-01-07T13:24:03.640+00:00Comments on Nothing Tra La La?: Love and war0tralalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06818587472660040921noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-1148384631430164112006-05-23T12:43:00.000+01:002006-05-23T12:43:00.000+01:00Damn you and your evidence.The Manhattan project i...Damn you and your evidence.<BR/><BR/>The Manhattan project is an odd one. Have you read <A HREF="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747552592/elephant" REL="nofollow">"Smoking in Bed"</A>? <BR/><BR/>It's a book of interviews with Bruce Robinson (who wrote The Killing Fields and Withnail & I), and one chapter is on his script for Fat Man and Little Boy, which got rather heavily rewritten to take out all the stuff about how entirely the CIA did over Oppenheimer. Really fascinating.<BR/><BR/>I am currently reading the A-bomb bit in AN Wilson's <A HREF="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0091794846/elephant" REL="nofollow">"After the Victorians"</A>. It's good, and (like his better Victorians book) suggests all sorts of things and people happening at once and influencing one another. <BR/><BR/>I find his need to relate everything to the Church of England a bit odd, and he's got that annoying Christian idea that if you don't have God you can't have any morality. But I shall<BR/>blog about it more when I am finished.0tralalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818587472660040921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-1148372252020000482006-05-23T09:17:00.000+01:002006-05-23T09:17:00.000+01:00Actually I think it's because large amounts of res...Actually I think it's because large amounts of resources get concentrated on fewer projects most of which have highly visible effects. Normal safety procedures are streamlined or bypassed. People who wouldn't work together in a million years (just look at the disparate personalities involved in the Manhatten project)and a sense of urgency pervades everything. Also, the technology is tested vigerously and too destruction but...<BR/><BR/>Following inventions not made in war time...<BR/><BR/>Powered Flight<BR/>Antibiotics<BR/>Transistors<BR/>X rays<BR/>Germ Theory<BR/><BR/>Anyway I actually logged on to say that I switched computers and my address book failed to follow...<BR/><BR/>Couyld you email me contact details again.<BR/><BR/>TTFN BenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com