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I can't find the quote, but I believe it was one of the physicists involved in the Manhattan Project who said that the greatest secret of nuclear weapons is tha
by hotpotamus 4y ago
I can't find the quote, but I believe it was one of the physicists involved in the Manhattan Project who said that the greatest secret of nuclear weapons is that they were feasible to engineer at all. Just by dropping them, the US let that secret out and ensured that other countries began engineering them.
I feel like American Exceptionalism has just turned into collective denial.
- krapp 4y agoAlthough we now know Russia had spies infiltrating the Manhattan project, so the cat was out of the bag either way.
- scythe 4y agoThe Allies also had spies sabotaging the Nazis' nuclear program, which may certainly have prevented WWII from being a lot worse.
- Sharlin 4y agoThere were many reasons, including the fact that the Nazis weren't nearly Manhattan Project level serious enough about pursuing nuclear weapons, and simply lacked the brainpower that had emigrated en masse before the war.