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by defrost 10 days ago
Good thing the MAUD Committee didn't listen and repeatedly pushed the US who just wanted to make power with atomic piles and didn't even think it was possible to make a weapon.

Mind you, there was no complete working device until after the Nazi's surrendered, so that's a moot point - and the USSR only had their program because of various Europeans on the US project passing their work (and others) back to the USSR ... making that second claim moot.
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socalgal2 10 days ago
> there was no complete working device until after the Nazi's surrendered

Isn't an argument. If the Nazi has gotten it first they'd have used it and likely won. Others would have surrendered in the face of the overwhelming power.

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defrost 10 days ago
They were flapping about in the dust, had no clear path, and lacked the resources to do what was required, what resources they did briefly capture were destroyed (eg: heavy water source).

You may as well say Japan would have made a weapon from their atomic pile program.

Seriously, get a grip on the facts of the day.

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