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Originally Posted by Cowperson
You didn't really think that through.
It is curious to ponder a world today where Russia and China, as examples, never acquired nuclear weapons, cowed by a more aggressive America in the mid-40's to mid-50's. That doesn't have to mean nuclear weapons would have actually had to be used to achieve that result . . . . . although i could see a few nearby demonstrations as evidence of will and future intent to get the result.
Re-writing history . . . . .
The North Korea and Iran situations are following a pattern.
Cowperson
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Well realistically, once Germany fell and the allies and Soviets divvied up their scientists the game was already over. The USSR had the means to make and develop their own bomb shortly after the US and the US was in no position to try and take on the Russians. Russia gave the bomb to China and everything trickled down from there. I really don't see how the US could have done anything to stop the Russians.