On: Popular Science Magazine Archives, May 1872-March 2009

[CamperBob2]

I hear you, and like I said, you're not wrong. But your position of choice is a privileged one, and I hope it doesn't prove to be only a temporary luxury.

[WalterBright → CamperBob2]

> But your position of choice is a privileged one

I have no idea what you mean by that.

[CamperBob2 → WalterBright]

By 1939 it was too late for the journal editors to say anything, but they no longer had the luxury of not caring.

The way it seems to work is, it's always too early to say something, and then it's too late. It's never the "right time."

[WalterBright → CamperBob2]

In "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" book it was clear that the physicists knew what was going on, and a lot had left by 1939. They wound up in Los Alamos.