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Originally posted by zkreso@Sep 1 2003, 03:57 PM
The analogy with the A-bomb being a Pandora's Box doesn't work for me, because with the A-bomb we "knew what was inside"  |
Actually they had no idea, and if you read the bottom of my last post trying to educate Great Wyrm, what I saw in a documentary back in the good old eightys, was that the Scientists working on the Manhatten project were uncertain or not if the splitting of enough atoms could actually set off a chain reaction to every atom in the world, this speculation was still in thought when they went ahead with the tests anyway.
In other words they knew they had an incredibly powerful weapon here, but they still did'nt know for sure how powerful, but that did'nt stop them, so to sum up the Pandora box analogy Zkreso, they really did'nt fully know, what was inside.