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World History

Al Carroll

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2. Interesting

Reply to Lithos (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 10:43 PM

Jun 2014

Most US govt officials at the same made the racist assumption that Japan was too primitive to have a chance at developing the a bomb.

Germany by contrast never got very far in their efforts, and when Manhattan project scientists realized that it was part of the reason many opposed using the a bomb on Japan.

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German and Japanese A-bomb development on WW II [View all] Lithos Jun 2014 OP

I read Wilcox's book back when it was first published ... eppur_se_muova Jun 2014 #1

Interesting Al Carroll Jun 2014 #2