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   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:36:36 -0700, The Starmaker   
    wrote:   
      
   >In the 1940's   
   >the department of war   
   >the military,   
   >had the same problem...   
   >   
   >they sat around a table   
   >they had a conference   
   >and their solution was...   
   >Albert Einstein.   
      
      
      
   First I have to tell you the background   
   of how Einstein and I became acquainted.   
   At the time of Pearl Harbor, I was a re-   
   search chemist in the U. S. Department   
   of Agriculture. Soon after that, I applied   
   for a commission in the Navy. After a   
   long drawn-out fight with the Navy,   
   which included one rejection, I won the   
   fight, and received my commission as a   
   full lieutenant (equivalent to a captain   
   in the Army) on September 2, 1942.   
   After that it took more than a month until   
   I located a billet in the Bureau of Ord-   
   nance and was called in for active duty.   
      
   Mr. Clark, following Gamow’s book,   
   wrote about the “Division of High Ex-   
   plosives” in the Bureau of Ordnance,   
   but there was no such thing. The Bureau   
   had a “Research and Development Divi-   
   sion (Re),"" the ision had a section   
   called “Ammunition and Explosives   
   (Re2)", and the section had a subsec-   
   tion called “High Explosives and Propel-   
   lants (Re2c)."” I was assigned to Re2c.   
   It had two other reserve officers in it   
   when I joined, and we divided the work   
   among ourselves. One became head of   
   propellant research, I became head of   
   high explosives research, and the third,   
   who was a lieutenant j.g., became my   
   assistant and deputy. I was, on the basis   
   of my broad experience in the field, ex-   
   cellently qualified for my assignment. I   
   knew the names of two high explosives:   
   TNT and dynamite. With that knowl-   
   edge, I became head of high explosives   
   research and development for the world’s   
   largest Navy!   
      
   But I was young and learned fast;   
   furthermore, the staff kept on growing as.   
   the war progressed. I acquired two   
   groups of civilian scientists; one headed   
   by one of the speakers at this meeting,   
   Raymond J. Seeger; another of tonight's   
   speakers, Harry Polachek, was in this   
   group; the other group was headed by   
   Gregory Hartmann, who eventually be-   
   came Technical Director of the post-   
      
      
      
   permission to visit him in Princeton. The   
   gracious consent came by return mail.   
   The visit took place on May 16. After   
   the pleasant preliminaries, I asked Ein-   
   stein whether he would be willing to be-   
   come a consultant for the Navy in general,   
   and for me, in the field of high explo-   
   sives research, in particular. Einstein was   
   tremendously pleased about the offer,   
   and very happily gave his consent. He   
   felt very bad about being neglected. He   
   had not been approached by anyone to   
   do any war work since the United States   
   entered the war. He said to me, “People   
   think that I am interested only in theory,   
   and not in anything practical. This is not   
   true. I was working in the Patent Office   
   in Zurich, and I participated in the de-   
   velopment of many inventions. The gyro-   
   scope too.”’ I said, “That's fine. You are   
   hired.”   
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