"What is it with amnesia around here - everyone forgets we had the bomb for 4 years before the Russians stole the secret. "
Tsk, tsk, tsk. If you are going to continue to make it an ethnicity issue over a Soviets vs. the US issue, at least have the honesty to say the people who stole the secrets where led by Ukrainian NKVD agent Pavel Sudoplatov.
You surely aren't suggesting we should have nuked the Soviet Union?
"You surely aren't suggesting we should have nuked the Soviet Union?"
So I take it you disagree with Patton. Why the pretense then - you really don't support Patton at all.
Of course we should have nuked Moscow. It would have stopped the Genocide of 60 million in China, the US losses of over 100,000 in Korea and VietNam as well as Gazillion$ wasted on the Cold War - we could have used the resources to cure cancer and such.
"You surely aren't suggesting we should have nuked the Soviet Union?"
We should have FOUGHT the Soviet Union over principle, and they would have given ground over East Germany and Poland, Checkoslovakia, because we HAD the bomb!
Patton was RIGHT.