‘Actually, America needed UK very little. It could have stayed home (or gone and fought the Japanese who are the ones that actually attacked them), let the Nazis regroup and defeat you.’
I was and am talking about the American reliance on British ships and material in order to fight in Europe and N Africa.
Just 16% of ships on D-Day were American.
‘LOL. Jews without a country did more for the Manhattan project than England.
On 30 July 1942, Sir John Anderson, the minister responsible, advised Churchill that: “We must face the fact that ... [our] pioneering work ... is a dwindling asset and that, unless we capitalise it quickly, we shall be outstripped. We now have a real contribution to make to a ‘merger.’ Soon we shall have little or none.”’
Oh dear. Your ignorance is laughable. You ARE aware that the British in 1940 gave all their nuclear programme secrets to America?. You ARE aware that Britain had a nuclear programme of its own prior to Dec 7th 1941 and also had America not entered the war, Britain had a nuclear facility in Canada ready to start solo work on a British atomic bomb?. Tube Alloys ring a bell?.
And if you are fond of quotes, I much prefer the one from Leslie Groves, the head of the Manhattan Project who stated the bomb would never have been built were it not for the British contribution.
‘No, you’re just an insignificant idiot.’
That’s MR Insignificant Idiot, MA in History from Glasgow University 1995.
‘Talk about getting your history from Hollywood.’
Your history knowledge REALLY is pitiful. Scotland JOINED the United Kingdom in 1707. Between 1018 and 1640, England tried and failed to conquer Scotland.
How arrogant of you to tell a Scotsman, and a qualified historian Scotsman at that, about the basics of his own country.
Hell, I bet you think Britain and England are the same thing.
“You ARE aware that the British in 1940 gave all their nuclear programme secrets to America?. You ARE aware that Britain had a nuclear programme of its own prior to Dec 7th 1941 and also had America not entered the war, Britain had a nuclear facility in Canada ready to start solo work on a British atomic bomb?. Tube Alloys ring a bell?”
Yes, I know all that, and more. It was insignifcant work, and would never have been finished before the end of the war.
Indeed, aside from Neils Bors, all England provided to the Manhattan Project was Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, the British man who turned over the nuke plans to the Soviets.
In defense of Tube Alloys, Klaus Fuchs did teach the Chinese how to make their bomb, and the Chinese taught the Pakistanis how to make their bomb, and the Pakis taught the North Koreans and Iranians to make their bombs.
So the British did contribute something to nuclear programes.
To the wrong sides, mind you. But something.