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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 577761" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The Soviets had spies within the Manhattan Project. They also had German scientists who had been involved in the German nuclear program during the war.</p><p> </p><p>The USA may have been the first to build and detonate a nuclear weapon, but we didnt "invent" it; the the science behind a nuclear explosion had been understood for some time and to get from the theory to an actual functioning weapon was simply a matter of refining and producing the plutonuim and perfecting the process.</p><p> </p><p>Even if we had never dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it would not have stoped the Russians from building their own.</p><p> </p><p>As bizarre at this might sound, using the A-bombs on Japan ultimately saved lives by forcing them to surrender and end the war without the need for an invasion of the Japanese home islands which would have resulted in millions of casualties.</p><p> </p><p>As it was, the population of Japan had been driven to the brink of starvation by our naval blockade. Another fact to remember is that almost 40% of the Allied POW's taken by Japan died of starvation or mistreatment during the war, and conditions for them were growing ever worse by the day. The A-bombs...cruel as they were...were better than the alternative of an invasion where our troops would have encountered millions of starving women and children armed with bamboo spears who had been ordered to fight to the death.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 577761, member: 14668"] The Soviets had spies within the Manhattan Project. They also had German scientists who had been involved in the German nuclear program during the war. The USA may have been the first to build and detonate a nuclear weapon, but we didnt "invent" it; the the science behind a nuclear explosion had been understood for some time and to get from the theory to an actual functioning weapon was simply a matter of refining and producing the plutonuim and perfecting the process. Even if we had never dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it would not have stoped the Russians from building their own. As bizarre at this might sound, using the A-bombs on Japan ultimately saved lives by forcing them to surrender and end the war without the need for an invasion of the Japanese home islands which would have resulted in millions of casualties. As it was, the population of Japan had been driven to the brink of starvation by our naval blockade. Another fact to remember is that almost 40% of the Allied POW's taken by Japan died of starvation or mistreatment during the war, and conditions for them were growing ever worse by the day. The A-bombs...cruel as they were...were better than the alternative of an invasion where our troops would have encountered millions of starving women and children armed with bamboo spears who had been ordered to fight to the death. [/QUOTE]
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