Von Braun in the Rainbow

[rich]

> My involvement in this thread  began when Rich Romeo characterized Freeman
> Dyson's review of the Neufeld WvB biography as "particularly insufferable"
> -- as best I can tell, because Dyson
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> (1) doesn't devote enough of the review to Dora and the Mittelwerk to suit
> Rich
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that's my opinion, dude--read the review.


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> (2) doesn't agree with Rich about the psychological effect of the V-2 on
> people at the time

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> Now, I tend to think that Dyson's presence in the UK during the V-weapon
> attacks...
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using that logic--well, Hitler fought during the Great War--he was
there, I wasn't--hey, maybe Germany was stabbed in the back by the
communists and Jews

> His personal involvement in tactics of mass destruction during WWII
> (operations research on Lancaster bombing raids over Germany), and his
> decades of reflection on that...
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> His long association with many of those working on American nuclear weapons,
> delivery systems, and space programs...
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> The whole body of his writings...
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> And my personal experience with him... all support the viewe that he has
> been thinking deeply, knowledgeably and sensitively about weapons and
> technology longer than Rich, or I, or most of the people on this list have
> been alive. He probably has a livelier sense of von Braun's guilt, and is
> farther from ignoring or exculpating it, than anyone here.  So I found it
> "particularly insufferable" to see him thus admonished.
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all i'm saying is you wouldn't have known that from reading the
review, Monte. just a little ol'general reader here.

> If your take-away is "good guys and bad guys and morals to be learned,"
> Robin, I honestly don't see why you bother with Pynchon. Comic books have
> that (a-and lively illustrations too!)
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let's not lose the moral outrage in Pynchon that is evident in his
work despite the many warnings of bad shit/excluded middles. Do you
not feel a certain disgust by the Von Brauns of the world?

Rich

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