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To: rdcbn1
Yes, the Japanese militaristic code of Bushido and it's its value of ruthless brutality, scorched earth warfare and pitiless military action did not translate well from it's its medieval weapons of warfare origins into the era of modern military capabilities, high-technology weapons and mechanized mass destruction.

[...] In fact, the German V1 and V2 missile programs were development projects for long-range, precision-guided delivery systems for nuclear weapons. [...]

America expended a massive amount of it's its industrial and technological strength to develop the tech and to build the weapons. [...]

Given that expenditure of resources alone, it was a foregone conclusion that the US would use it's its nuclear weapons as soon as they were developed to make sure that we used ours before the enemy used their atomic weapons on us. [...]

There's a lot to "unpack" there; but let me focus instead on just that one assertion, which I think represents a gross distortion of the truth:

1. Because of weight constraints, neither the V-1 nor the V-2 could ever have carried a 1940s-era nuke - and certainly not any hypothetical German nuke. No documentation exists indicating that the Nazis ever envisaged mounting a nuclear warhead on either the V-1 or the V-2. Nor did the Nazis ever deploy any aircraft capable of delivering such a bomb.

2. German scientists were much farther away from developing a workable A-Bomb than was generally believed at the time by the U.S. experts. One might assert that the U.S. experts were acting out of an "abundance of caution," and I won't criticize them for that. But over the years, in the collective mind of the American public, the specious belief that the Nazis had more than a snowflake's chance in Hell to develop any nuclear device - let alone a warhead capable of being delivered by air - has, sadly, taken root.

Regards,

193 posted on 05/05/2024 5:19:18 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Absolutely true.

In the aftermath of the war (or so it seems to these humble eyes), Nazi military-technological (is that a word?) achievements looked much bigger than what they were. Of course, invented stories and speculations gave quite some fuel to a lot of these impressions.


222 posted on 05/05/2024 10:11:10 AM PDT by Menes
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