which operate on basically different principles, and the same is no doubt true of
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Some of these who were associated with the barib design project canc away
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trenendously impressed with the secningly insuperabic
overcome.
displayed.
Undoubtedly they were justified
ifficultics which were
in their admiration for the ingenuity
But they are not justified in assuming that ageregations of talented
young micn in other parts of the world could not display equally brilliant ingenuity.
<A high-ranking naval officer, who was associatcd with the Los Alanos
Laboratory, in an effort at a rocent public mecting tc impress his audience with
the scale of the obstacles which will beset any other nation that attonpts to
make a bomb, reported that one particularly trying problem was overcome only
because one scicntist happened to misunderstand another,
It must be submitted
that the United States can hardly base its security on the supposition that
scicntists abroad will be unable to misunderstand each other.
Te cannot assume that what took us tivo and one~half years to accomplish,
without the certainty that success was possible, should take another great nation
twenty to thirty years to duplicate with the full knowledze that the thing has
been done.
ness.
To do so would be to exhibit an extreme form of ethnocentric smug-
it is true that we mobilizec a vast amount of talent, but Amorican Ways
are frequontly wasteful,
Ye were simultancously pushing forward on a great many other scicntific and
engincering frents having nothing to do with the atomic bomb.
Another nation
which has fewer enmincers and scientists than we have could nevertheless, by concoentrating all its pertinent talent on this one job--and there is plenty of
notivation--marshal as grcat a fund of scientific and engineering workers as it
would need, perhaps cs much es we did.
The Japanese, for example, before the re-
cent war, wore intcnt on having a gecd torpedo, and by concentrating on that ond
produced a superb torpedo, though they had to accept inferiority to us in practically covery other aspect of naval ordnance,
One should expect a sinilar