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Skriven 2013-09-27 11:55:15 av alexander koryagin (2:5020/2140.2)
  Kommentar till text 10407 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Re: Putin Blinks
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Hi, Roy Witt!
I read your message from 23.09.2013 18:30

  ak>> Truman could say "We've made a diabolical bomb, and we are going
  ak>> to burn alive 200 thousand people from two big Japanese cities.
  ak>> Isn't it great news?"

  RW> Of course, Truman had no idea of the destruction the bomb could do
  RW> at this time.

But he did have this idea at the moment of ordering to bomb, because he 
was aware of the result of the nuclear test.

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  ak>> But we know Truman's reaction only -- he liked the results of the
  ak>> first bomb so much that he decided to drop the second one.

  RW> Truman didn't know the true power of the 1st bomb (July 1945) until
  RW> they dropped the 2nd bomb on August 6, 1945 over Hiroshima. The 1st
  RW> bomb was exploded at White Sands, New Mexico the month before.

So, how do you say that Truman didn't know the A-bomb destructive power 
after the testing had been done? It was exactly the testing had shown 
the destructiveness of the A-bomb. The first bombing on Hiroshima was 
another confirmation, before dropping the second bomb. So, your argument 
is poor.

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  RW> "Years later, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, in his memoirs, disclosed
  RW> that that night (Potsdam) Stalin ordered a telegram sent to those
  RW> working on the atomic bomb in Russia to hurry with the job."
  RW> Charles E. Bohlen, Witness to History 1929-1969 (New York: W. W.
  RW> Norton, 1973) pp. 247-248.

Actually, the matter is that theoretically an A-bomb was invented a good 
time before the WW2, and everybody knew of it. It was not a matter of 
complexity to do it, it was the matter of technology.

In 1938 it was discovered that an atom of uranium divides when stricken 
by a neutron.  In 1939 Curie told all the world (like an idiot) that 
every fusion produces many neutrons. Since then, every dog (from the 
world of science :)) knew that these two facts could be used for making 
a very powerful bomb.

Of course, Russian scientists knew about it, too. I repeat, it was a 
matter of time and technology to make an A-bomb first. It so happened 
that almost all atomic scientists had gathered in the US before WW2 and 
they were whipped up by news that Hitler tried to make the bomb too.

Hitler tried to make and use an A-bomb because he was Hitler. The US did 
use it against civilians, and more of that, it many times made plans to 
bomb the USSR first. Besides, I still don't know a single the USSR's 
plan to attack the US first with A-boms.

Bye, Roy!
Alexander Koryagin
fido7.fidonews 2013
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