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The day A-bomb monopoly was shattered
Published: 29 August, 2009, 14:06
Edited: 11 January, 2010, 16:13
As the old saying goes, God created men, but Sam Colt made them equal. The same can be told about nations and nuclear weapons. Sixty years ago Soviet Union tested its first A-bomb.
Churchill and Truman had an advanced plan of attacking the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons, and targets were chosen for the demise, but their dilemma had only two choices: 1. Attack the Soviets, win the war and rule the world. 2. Attack the Soviets, don’t win the war outright and being exterminated as nations and race forever. The first problem for Churchill and Truman was that America did not posses enough bombs at that time to obliterate the Russians and the second problem was the delivery vehicle of the bombs. If those few bombs which America possessed at that time were dropped at the wrong place where the damage would have been minimal, than the wounded bear would have been so fiercely enraged, would have made the rest of the World an allies against the aggressors of the Mankind, especially the Japs, and the World Map today would not have had USA and GB on its pages. Mind you, Churchill and Truman had no idea what other secret weapons Russians had which Tesla earlier had passed on to them.
Not crazy! Not crazy! Ask any Japanese adult who was a child then and survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Americans are the most vicious and unrepented animals created. However, those who created nuclear weapons have brought to the end of time for humankind as we know it. The Caucasian man and no other. We are now doomed with this hanging over all our heads.
I think you seem to forget that the drive to create such a weapon was primarily out of fear that the Nazi's would beat the Allied forces to it. Make no mistake, if Hitler had developed nuclear capability before the US then Russia and Europe would not have been spared his wrath. Its funny how time forgets the bonds that tied us, the efforts put in by Russian, British, German (defectors) and American scientists to help preserve our freedoms. Yet all it gave us was fifty years of mistrust, something I find as prevalent in Russian news of the West as American news is towards the Russians. Meanwhile both sides are really sitting back letting the groundings for a new race with China form when all three should be embracing each other and trying to avoid another cold war. The achievements of the Russian nuclear program were impressive, why not herald it for what it was - a technical achievement - and not the prejudice that has formed around it?
polondia, how soon YOU forget. My Uncles(s) died in Pearl Harbor. Was their "death" any different from the deaths in Japan? Unbelievable!
Fascinating story with historic implications. The US use of two atom bombs over Japanese cities is one of the greatest travesties committed during WW II. The purposed seemed to have been two fold: (1). Test the destructiveness of the weapons over cities filled with live human beings; (2). Demonstrate American power to Russia. As soon as Japan surrendered, America immediately rushed her scientists and technicians over to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to evaluate the effectiveness of the blasts. The occupying Americans refused to permit Japanese publication of documented human suffering caused by the blasts. And, of course, there is that old American coverup for the atomic tests: "we saved a million human lives". Sort of like America had to kill over a million Iraqis to "git" Saddam. The development of the atom bomb and the TU-4 nuclear bomber (copy of US B-29) attests to the creative skills and talents of the Soviet Union at the time it lay devastated by WW II. The course of human history would have been quite different if the USSR had not achieved nuclear parity with the US in 1949. America would have been embolden to attack Russia, or at least, intimidate her into submission. The Iranians know full well that America has never dared to attack a nation which has nuclear weapons.
Yeah, but if the US really wanted to hurt the Soviet Union deep down, we had 3 years of nuclear monopoly to go to war with. Just shows we never really have had anything against Russia. We are not crazy animals either.