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Juge--
Exactly, it is absolutely amazing we did not blow-up the world by sheer ignorance and miscommunication. Anyone who thinks other wise should look at how far each side was willing to go to avert war; yet, how many blunders were made.
China has had atomic capability since 1969 I believe. I do not know if they have thermonuclear capability. I do not know if they have the Long Range Missile technology capable of delivering a nuclear weapon at a US target. Probably why they are actively working on their space technology.
theking--
MANY nuclear physicists wanted most countries to share the allied research of the Manhattan Project. Remember it was started because of the belief the Nazis had a similar program. That is why so many international scientists came to the states to help the effort. It is also why scientists like Klaus Fuchs and Ted Wohl GAVE the Russians (Our allies, who were actually excluded from the secret effort) much of the information they needed to develop the bomb.
Russia did develop the atomic bomb 4 years after the Anglo-American effort. Then the Russians actually beat the United States, Canada and Britian to the development Thermo Nuclear weapons.
I'm sure when _Colin_ comes in he will expound on how relatively simple the construction of atomic weaponry is, with Nuclear Physicists probably trained in American schools, using unclassified American research, and old intelligence as a base.
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