Von Braun in the News

[Monte Davis]

> I realize Dyson is a physicist by trade and his opinions may 
> be clouded...

You might try reading his _Weapons and Hope_, or the opening chapters of
_The Starship and the Canoe_. As an operations analyst for Bomber Command
late in WWII... a colleague of Bethe, Feynman and other Los Alamos veterans
immediately after the war... and (to my personal knowledge over the last 30
years) a profoundly thoughtful and sensitive man, he might surprise you.
Occasionally even a mere physicist can aspire to the broad vision of a
P-lister.

> Dyson argues that the V-2 was ineffectual and not all that 
> "disturbing". Dyson I think loses all sense of context like 
> the psychological effects on ordinary people of such weapons 
> not only in London but in Antwerp...

Well, of course he was merely living in the UK while they were landing, anc
couldn't possibly have your insight.

> not to mention what the V-2 eventually lead to--time-efficient nuclear
weapon 
> global delivery systems.

No, Freeman Dyson's never given *them* a moment's thought.

Rich, you really haven't a clue, have you?.