Re: Eastman guitars



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> I'm English. While you Yanqui scum were happily selling arms and
> materiel to the Nazis, my people were fighting for freedom.

While I'll stay out of the way here, I will add that the
US atomic bomb program owes much to the Germans (Hans Benthe in
particular), the Russians (it was a Russian who perfected the
implosion method for squeezing plutonium into a critical mass), the
Poles (Stanislaw Ulam), the English (who needed the US to build on
their
atomic research to build a bomb, being as England was busy staving off
the Germans), the Italians (Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segre)
and various Hungarians, Austrians and evan Australians
(Mark Oliphant, who kicked ass until the program was underway in the
US). Additionally, Robert Oppenheimer, who ran Los Alamos during the
time of the Manhattan Project, got his PhD at the University
of Gottingen in Germany. English, French, German and Italian labs
got a head start on atomic research over the Americans, and it was
only with the start of the war that much of that work had to
be continued on US soil.

(This isn't to say that the US wasn't making progress by itself
on this - Lawrence had already perfected his cyclotron - but
without these valuable contributions from Europe, progress would
have been much slower).

If this sounds like I'm taking this out of a book - well, I did.
"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes - highly
recommended.

I will also quietly note that there is an IBM card-sorting machine
at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC (at least when the museum
opened)
sold to the Germans by IBM directly, and I'll let everyone figure out
what it was used for.

JMK

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