[Sherman Logan]

We had nukes coming up and if we'd waited a year we could have obliterated Germany in its entirity and saved hundreds of thousands of American and Allied troops lives.

Till July, 1945 not a person in the world knew whether the nuke would actually work. It would have been the height of irresponsibility to build a war strategy based entirely on the success of an experimental weapons program.

Not to mention that with no Allied troops on the ground in Europe there would have been nothing to stop the Red Army from going to the Channel.

While we had nukes by mid-1945, we had very few nukes.

[muawiyah]

When we had but three nukes we used all of them. That's rather colored international discussions of the prospects of new countries getting nukes. They may arrive at the same conclusion.

Once they had nuclear fission proved, they had nukes if they wanted them ~ and that happened on December 2, 1942 at Alonzo Field Stagg Stadium in Chicago!