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Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email by icebraining on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @07:17PM (#12860274)
Was the Manhattan Project efficient? How do you go about assessing that? Do you have any term of comparison? Do you think it's unlikely that it would have been done sooner and cheaper if it didn't have to be kept secret?
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Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email by cushychicken on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @07:53PM (#12860445)
Well, for one thing, everyone working on the project was kept in the same big research compound in Los Alamos. No one in, no one out. It had the dual purpose of efficiency (all the researchers in one place) and secrecy (none of said researchers were allowed to leave).
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Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email by robotresearcher on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @10:40PM (#12861212)
I don't believe that's true. Most researchers were civilians and were free to move as they pleased.
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