Rand Simberg wrote:
On 21 Feb 2006 11:08:37 -0800, in a place far, far away,
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

Those bumped from the A-4 program would have had virtually *no* chance
to make any useful contributions to the A-Bomb project.

That says less about their utility than it does about the
ineffectiveness of German decision making,

It says rather a lot about *both*. Again, what utility to an atom bomb
project would an aerodynamicist be?

It depends on how specialized he was, and what his background was, and
how adaptable he was.

OK. Then why do you assume the A-4 program damaged the German Abopmb
program? Couldn't the Abomb program ahve gotten it's human resources
just as easily from, say, the Type XXI and Type XXIII U-Boat
development staff? How about the Porsche and Henschal tank works?
Dornier and Messerschmitt? The BMW and Junkers turbojet design teams?
What made the A-4 so special that people who devoted themselves to
rockets did so at the expense of nuclear physics?