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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Asia doubts US resolve
  • Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:52:56 -0800


----- 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






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