[BC] speaking of skin effect and Lorentz

[Craig Bowman]

Several years ago I was seated next to a professor at a famous 
engineering school.  He had been a government employee early on in the 
nuclear program.  He was one of the guys to get the yield up.  We 
discussed the problems in the middle east and he was a proponent of 
using nuclear weapons.  I argued the middle easterners did not have the 
technology to explode a nuke.  He asked me when was the last time a 
prototype of anything worked on the first try.  The nuclear bomb did.  
He assured me it is not at all difficult.  Getting the yield up, now 
that's difficult he argued.  It made a real impression on me.  Think 
about it, the very first bomb worked and arguably better than they 
anticipated!  He believes in the deterrent of making glass out of dessert.

Craig Bowman

Chuck Lakaytis wrote:
> About ten years ago a researcher at the University of Michigan did a 
> paper about laser separation of isotopes.  He went on vacation.  On his 
> return he found his lab sealed off, his equipment and all his papers 
> seized.........
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