Norbert and the Nukes

[Daniel Bump]

Steelhead (sitka at teleport.com) wrote:

>How wrong can you be? For me, this puts Pynchon's references to Wiener's
>work in a whole new light. It's all a big joke. Wiener's little more than a
>Nazi scientist with progressive credentials.

The fact that Norbert Wiener was (clearly, glaringly) wrong about the glowing
prospects of nuclear power (pun intended---sorry!) does not make him a Nazi.
Back in the days before Three Mile Island and Chernobyl many people held naive
views about nuclear power. That does not make them Nazis.

Norbert Wiener was a Jew, though his parents strangely didn't bother to tell
him during his childhood. He was a descendent of Maimonides.

                               Daniel Bump