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To: Flag_This

“A. The Manhattan Project was started in 1942, specifically with Germany in mind. It doesn’t matter how much you wish it were otherwise, Germany was the intended first recipient in mind.”

It was commissioned by FDR 1939 in response to intel from ex-German Jews that the Germans had successfully achieved nuclear fission. He did not want the Germans to get the bomb before the Americans due to strategic considerations. The need for atomic research was to not only catch up with where the Germans already were by ‘39, but also to surpass them and develop the bomb first. As a deterrent.

This is significant. You can write all you want about how they ‘intended’ to nuke Germany first, it is not true. Nor does it follow what actually happened in history. By the time nuclear weapons were available, the war had already been won in Europe.


185 posted on 08/10/2013 8:01:10 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: JCBreckenridge

Apparently it doesn’t bother you to contradict yourself in two consecutive paragraphs in the same post.


209 posted on 08/11/2013 7:08:59 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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