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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>


> I never said the blunder was in using it.  I can't answer that.  But it > 
> was definitely a blunder to sit idly by and allow the Soviets, followed
> by the Chinese, to acquire nuclear weapons.
The Russians were working on nuclear fisson long before 1939 and the 
beginning of the Manhattan Project.  If Einstein hadn't written Roosevelt 
that letter and told him the Nazis were busy pulling the U-235 out, then the 
Manhattan Project wouldn't have occurred and the Russians would have had the 
first bomb.  There really wasn't any "sitting by idly" or "allowing" the 
Soviets to do anything.

Precisely how would you have suggested they stop the Russians?  Drop bombs 
on all 14 cites they were using to work on the bomb?

The Brit's MAUD committee had the facts in order long before the U.S.  Maybe 
we should have stopped them too?

Or France?

Though, actually, one might have been able to slow down the Russians if the 
U.S. had "recruited" the German scientists who had been working on the bomb 
before the U.S. was.  Instead, the powers that be let them head on over to 
Russia.

Lynda