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   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:28:04 -0700, The Starmaker   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.”   
      
   Here is a short explaination of why they hired Albert Einstein:   
      
   " Calvert served on the Jack under Lt. Comdr. Tommy Dykers, and here   
   is how he describes his sub’s first experience with the Mark 6   
   exploder: “We worked into an excellent position and fired three   
   torpedoes—the Jack ’s first war shots of her career. Short of the   
   predicted torpedo run time, we heard a tremendous explosion. That   
   should finish him, I thought.   
      
   “‘ Damn those exploders … damn them all to hell! ’ said Dykers as he   
   looked through the scope.   
      
   “‘The first torpedo prematured … just before it got to the MOT [middle   
   of the target] … and I don’t know whether the other two passed under   
   without exploding, or missed. Son of a bitch from Baghdad !’ came the   
   bitter exclamation from the skipper.” (Despite continuing torpedo   
   trouble, Jack ’s later forays were considerably more successful.)"   
      
      
      
      
   Einstein soved the problem...   
      
      
      
   "If I were asked to state what specific   
   contributions were made by Einstein to   
   our high explosives research, I would   
   have to say this. New and more effec-   
   tive high explosives were developed dur-   
   ing the war, and they were used by the   
   Navy and the Army (which then included   
   the Air Force) against Germany, Japan   
   and their allies. (I found out later that at   
   least the underwater explosives, possibly   
   others, were also used in the Korean and   
   the Vietnam War.) But these develop-   
   ments were the results of the efforts of   
   large groups of people, including Ein-   
   stein."   
      
      
   Einstein is da bomb!   
      
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