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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Dec 6, 2009
Vannevar Bush, perhaps????
GT
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Dec 6, 2009
Correct. +3
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Dec 7, 2009
*bump*
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Dec 7, 2009
No-one at all? 
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Dec 7, 2009
did the americans hassle the french during their nuclear tests, observers off bikini atoll etc.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Dec 8, 2009
Nope
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Dec 8, 2009
and no.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Dec 8, 2009
Anything to do with Van's input to the fledgeling analog computer industry. That is where his name came up in a book I read once.....
(Please do not say it is a Klaxon, Clive!!)
GT
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Dec 8, 2009
Nothing to do with computers sorry GT.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Dec 8, 2009
Sure Taff, but it'll have to be in the morning now Taff. G'night. 
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van-smeiter Posted Dec 8, 2009
The report of my "input to the fledgeling analog computer industry" was an exaggeration
Van 
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Dec 8, 2009
Cribbing lines from Mark Twain, are we? 
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Dec 8, 2009
Just read the backlog......
I heard somewhere that old Vannevar was at Los Alamos when the Yanks were trying to perfect the nuclear bomb, and Eisenhour told bush to keep his findings to himself, and then President Eisenhour could truthfully deny any knowledge about a nuclear Bomb....
GT
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Dec 8, 2009
Well it took a fair bit of digging to find the information I was looking for. 
His involvement with the manhatten project is significant, but I'm specially interested in what he was up to in 1942 to be precise, when as head of the Office for Scientific Research and Development which was not at Los Alamos but within the Office for Emergency Management*.
*That the bit it took 30 minutes intense googling to find! 
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Dec 8, 2009
Okay, let's recap.
The question is.
What was "The French Problem" and what did the US Government successfully censor because of it?
The French Problem is something to do with the sharing of nuclear secrets (that not wholly it, but it is correct hence Iago's +3)
Vannevar Bush is involved - he was the head appointed by Roosevelt of the Office of Scientific Reasearch, which essentially managed what would become The <anhatten project but he wasn't stationed at Los Alamos and in truth in spite of his involvement it's not him I'm interested in, but rather and enigmaticallythe office (literally across the hall from his) in the OSRD - and what they were getting up to in May 1942.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Dec 9, 2009
Would a clue be helpful?
Key: Complain about this post
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- 41: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Dec 6, 2009)
- 42: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Dec 6, 2009)
- 43: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Dec 7, 2009)
- 44: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Dec 7, 2009)
- 45: Taff Agent of kaos (Dec 7, 2009)
- 46: Taff Agent of kaos (Dec 7, 2009)
- 47: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Dec 8, 2009)
- 48: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Dec 8, 2009)
- 49: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Dec 8, 2009)
- 50: Taff Agent of kaos (Dec 8, 2009)
- 51: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Dec 8, 2009)
- 52: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Dec 8, 2009)
- 53: van-smeiter (Dec 8, 2009)
- 54: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Dec 8, 2009)
- 55: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Dec 8, 2009)
- 56: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Dec 8, 2009)
- 57: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Dec 8, 2009)
- 58: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Dec 8, 2009)
- 59: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Dec 9, 2009)
- 60: Deadangel - Still not dead, just! (Dec 9, 2009)
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