The Young Women Who Were Tricked into Creating the Atomic Bomb

Wow, "created" seems like a heckuva stretch in this title.

It often seems like the intent of this kind of a dishonest title is to imply that so-and-so was the real force behind some thing (see also, Hidden Figures) but was not given credit due to systemic <insert all powerful force of oppression here>.

For me, the real effect is to read everything that comes after with extreme skepticism.

Where is the reporting on everyone else who was “tricked into” creating the bomb? Carpenters totally tricked. Landscapers totally tricked.

Actually, I’m doing the same thing. I’m tricking my gardener into creating everything I do while I work from home. I didn’t tell them at all what I do, so I tricked them into creating a data analysis.

This is a silly line of thought and seems to stem from the logical fallacy of “assuming intent without evidence.”

I once had an employee who spend large amounts of time complaining that I excluded them from meetings. They were going through my calendar and making lists of every meeting that didn’t include them and asking me to justify why I excluded them. Meetings that didn’t even show the title or material, just they the time was blocked.

This led to some surreal explanations where they were demanding to be invited to a 15 minute reminder for me to submit an abstract. Or my 1:1 mentoring sessions.

I could not understand their logic but it went something like everyone in the world should operate with their mental model and consider whether their actions would be better with this person participating.

Similarly, in this article, if you think that designs should be shared with pretty low-level employees (or maybe even contractors) for them to make an informed decision, then it’s tricking.

Rolling Stone didn't go far enough with their analysis. They really should of looked into how the war department took advantage of exploiting Isaac Newton for inventing calculus in the first place.

The atomic bomb was very important, so it must have been done by women.

But it was also bad -- so they must have been tricked into creating it!

Let's now reason backward to support this obviously true conclusion.

Low-level employees in an ultra-secret military program don't have any real idea of what they're working on? Shocker. This is just bait for their target audience.

Great article! What an insane story of secrecy and building a city overnight!!

tl;dr I was curious what role they played. A few pages in and it seems like the author is not interested in getting to the point.