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Re: a very indirect connection

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The Starmaker wrote:
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> The Starmaker wrote:
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> > > > "a very indirect connection"
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> > > >  buff·er
> > > > /'b?f?r/
> > > > noun
> > > >
> > > >     a person or thing that prevents incompatible or antagonistic people or things from coming into contact with or harming each other.
> > > >
> > > >     synonyms:  intermediary, middleman, go-between
> > > >
> > > > Organized crime is an industry that is dependent upon effective coordination of its two components, the "criminal group" and the "buffer".
> > > > The buffer is the criminal group's protection from the criminal justice system. The buffer protects the criminal group from effective prosecution
> > > >
> > >
> > > li·ai·sons
> > >
> > > communication or cooperation which facilitates a close working relationship between people or organizations.
> > >
> > > the contact or connection maintained by communications between units of the armed forces or of any other organization in order to ensure concerted action, cooperation, etc.
> > > a person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection.
> > >
> > > A person who functions as a connection or go-between, as between persons or groups.
> >
> > "In view of the situation you may think it desirable to have more
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> > permanent contact maintained between the Administration and the group
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> > of physicists  working on chain reactions in America. One possible way
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> > of achieving this might be for you to entrust with this task a person
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> > who has your confidence and who could perhaps serve in an inofficial
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> > capacity. His task might comprise the following:
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> >       a) to approach Government Departments, keep them informed of the
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> > further development, and put forward recommendations for Government action,
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> > giving particular attention to the problem of securing a supply of uran-
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> > ium ore for the United States;" --Albert Einstein
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> > https://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein/#first
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> Albert Einstein told the FBI that at the present time SZILARD is connected in some manner with Columbia University
> in New York City, where he is working on uranium experiments for military purposes. He stated that this work is on a
> private scale but that it is financed by the University. Albert Einstein told the FBI that SZILARD is working with an
> Italian by the name of FERMI, who is a very trustworthy man.
> Professor EINSTEIN said that he sees SZILARD quite frequently as SZILARD visits him to 'inform him as to his work on the uranium experiment.'


Albert Einstein wrote a letter to his son...September 2, 1945

"My scientific work has only 'a very indirect connection' with the atomic bomb."


In other words, Szilard was Albert Einstein't ...buffer.









-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
 to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge
 the unchallengeable.

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