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I won't pretend to know what was in the minds of the people at the time. Maybe there were multiple reasons and not one single "real reason." Looking at the wor
by sathackr 7y ago
I won't pretend to know what was in the minds of the people at the time. Maybe there were multiple reasons and not one single "real reason."
Looking at the world today I think most people would prefer that a device that can cause such massive destruction simply not exist. I can only imagine what will happen once the ones that have been 'lost' start showing up in the wrong hands. The destruction was bad enough when in the 'right hands' (scare quotes, because I don't feel so great about what we(USA) did either.)
We can play what-if all day but we will never know what would have happened if things didn't happen as they did. I just hope that the actual version of what happened doesn't get 'corrected' in history books so that our future descendants can learn from our mistakes.
- colechristensen 7y agoUnfortunately the bomb is obvious. It is not some eldritch construction which could be forgotten and lost forever without great effort to recreate. Once you have developed atomic physics the idea of a bomb is inevitable and once you know it can be done building one is trivial requiring only mundane resources (but a lot of them). You could explain how to build one to a child. Increasing power is a consequence of expanding knowledge.