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About four years from Hiroshima/Nagasaki to the USSR's first successful test. Soviets had the bomb before the Korean War.
by Brendinooo 9y ago
About four years from Hiroshima/Nagasaki to the USSR's first successful test. Soviets had the bomb before the Korean War.
- paulddraper 9y agoTrue. (Though the USSR's first successful air drop wasn't until Oct 1951, well into the Korea War.) Soviet nukes were not why the U.S. held back in Korea. It was the unpleasant prospect of a war with China (albeit a non-nuclear China). https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/how-korean-war-almost-went-nuclear-180955324/ https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/how-korean-war... And it didn't use them in Vietnam because it was thought to require so many (dozens/hundreds) as to be the antithesis of reunification. --- In short, the US avoided nukes for decades in the hope of peace, not because there were any nukes sighted on D.C. (MAD).