Gregory Benford’s The Berlin Project asks the question: What would have happened if my* father-in-law had had the chance to have the high-speed centrifuge method be chosen as the Manhattan Project’s primary method for uranium enrichment? And the answer is apparently We would have had the Bomb in time for D-Day. Which is arguably true, and certainly interesting. And probably a better situation all around, assuming that you weren’t living in… well, read the book. Although you’ve probably guess what happens, just from the title.
And so, adieu to The Weapon Shops of Isher.
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