That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The [atomic] bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.
Admiral William D. Leahy comment on the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project, to President Harry S. Truman in 1945
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That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The [atomic] bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.
Admiral William D. Leahy comment on the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project, to President Harry S. Truman in 1945