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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

Lynda wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>
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> > 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.
>  
I'm talking about after '45, of course.  What are you talking about?

> Precisely how would you have suggested they stop the Russians?  Drop bombs 
> on all 14 cites they were using to work on the bomb?
>  
It sounds inhumane, but it was never appropriate to allow them to go on 
at all, and in their weakened state, "regime change" would have been 
worth the cost, in hindsight.

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

Obviously not, bozo, only the self-declared adversarial state governed 
by thugs who had recently slaughtered much of their own population to 
seize and hold power.

> 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.
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>  

Quite right, and all part of the problem to which I allude.

Bill