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   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:37:15 -0700, The Starmaker   
    wrote:   
      
   >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!   
   >   
      
   https://archive.navalsubleague.org/1986/dr-einstein-s-torpedo-letter   
      
      
      
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