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I've been reading Studs Terkel's The Good War, an oral history of WW2, and there are some incredible interviews with members of the Manhattan Project in it. At
by georgeoliver 11y ago
I've been reading Studs Terkel's The Good War, an oral history of WW2, and there are some incredible interviews with members of the Manhattan Project in it. At least at the beginning, they really thought Germany would beat them to the bomb.
- WalterBright 11y agoA lot of people speculate on what would have happened if Hitler had not made so many disastrous military decisions. The simple truth is the US would have dropped the bomb on Berlin, and they would have lost anyway.
- sgrove 11y agoWho is "they", in this case?
- steve19 11y agoIf Hitler that gotten the bomb first he could have dropped it on London and the war would have been over.
- WalterBright 11y agoHis nuclear program was so far behind it is unlikely it would have ever produced anything. Nor were the resources available to do anything on the scale of the Manhattan Project.