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Ah yes, what a better world we would be living in if the Nazis had created the bomb first.
by umeshunni 3y ago
Ah yes, what a better world we would be living in if the Nazis had created the bomb first.
- Apocryphon 3y agoWasn’t ever going to happen. The Germans were never even close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program
- wussboy 3y agoHindsight is 20/20
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- pier25 3y agoExactly. They had to decide without knowing what the Germans were up to.
- umeshunni 3y agoYour comment made me wonder if there's an alternate history work of fiction where the atom bomb wasn't built. Something like Man in the High Castle for WW2 victory or For All Mankind for the Space Race. I found: - The Oppenheimer Alternative https://www.amazon.com/Oppenheimer-Alternative-Robert-J-Sawyer/dp/1647100135 https://www.amazon.com/Oppenheimer-Alternative-Robert-J-Sawy... (Fission bomb instead of Fusion bomb) - The Berlin Project: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30753656 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30753656 (earlier atom bomb)
- Apocryphon 3y agoThat would be a very interesting divergence to explore, with very interesting ramifications for the Cold War, especially if nuclear weapons do get invented later on, but without two bloody live-fire demonstrations to shock the world.