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In any case it was certain that the secret of the atomic bomb could not be kept after it's existance was revealed. Not a single scientist thought it could be. Technology of all kinds spreads like wildfire in the modern world.

So it is OK to give secrets to enemies of America if they would get them someday anyways?

My gosh.

Btw...it wasn't that easy to make the bomb. Had the Soviets not had the bomb when they did, had the Rosenbergs, Ted Hall and others not helped them get the bomb, Stalin would not have given North Korea the OK to invade the south. Times would have been bought. American lives saved.

I have no problem with the guilty verdict. I have no problem with the death sentence. I do have a problem with trying to obtain a confession by threat of death. Of what value is such a confession? How does it differ from Hitelerian and Stalinist confessions obtained by similar methods?

Btw...it wasn't that easy to make the bomb. Had the Soviets not had the bomb when they did, had the Rosenbergs, Ted Hall and others not helped them get the bomb, Stalin would not have given North Korea the OK to invade the south. Times would have been bought. American lives saved

On this point you may be right. I don't know enough of the history of the period to be sure.

But on general principals
1)Stalin had no more control of the North Korean invasion of the South than he did of VietNamese resistance to the French. He reacted to rather than instigated it
2)We could have used the atomic bomb in Korea had we so chosen. We had many, the Russians very few. We chose not to for other reasons (If I remember correctly, we were ready to use the bomb in '54 against the VietNamese. It was the French rather than Eisenhower who declined).