[Petronski]

That's what I said above about 'spinning quite a tale.' Plus, Stalin had the help of communist sympathizers within Manhattan to give him the a big head start. There were no 'Nazi sympathizers' among the largely Jewish Manhattan Project braintrust.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Hitler could have melted the east coast in the late 50s or early 60s; we probably could have retaliated to some extent, depending on whether we had a rocket program of our own, starting up independently sans-Wehrner ("vans ze rockets go up who cares ver zey come down? Iz not my department," said Wehrner Von Braun....")

(Where is Professor Lehrer now that we need him most?)

Thank you very much, no. Besides, we get to face the same problem in 2010....