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, followedThe 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.
by the Chinese, to acquire nuclear weapons.
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