July 16 1945. There’s a good documentary called Trinity and Beyond. It’s narrated by one William Shatner.
Biggest mistake in history was allowing any other country to develop their own atomic weapons.
The Manhattan Project was peak America. The can-do, kick-ass, un-woke country that did that is but a memory now.
Imagine 500,000 young American men dead in the invasion of Japan, probably some of our fathers and grandfather thus eliminating ourselves from existence. The loss of life in Japan from the two bombs was unfortunate, but it was them or us. Actually, it was us AND them, as countless Japanese lives were saved as a result of the war ending when it did. God bless Leslie Groves, Oppenheimer, Truman et al.
The bomb was inevitable...once the physics was ironed out, it was only a matter of engineering. Who in their right mind would argue that it wasn’t best for the world that the US got there first?
Heck, the Russian A-bomb program cost less, it was called Rosenberg.
Not all the moon landings and atomic power in the world can fix the stupid that attends to leftist doctrine.
Shouldn’t this article be in German?
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I visited the Trinity site in 1995. It used to be open two days out of the year.
Actually, the main positive effect of "The Bomb" is that now the Politicians who gladly send their young men off to die in war can be placed at the same level of risk as those young men.
Kinda makes them pause... and think a bit.
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon
We called it M.A.D. - "Mutually Assured Destruction".
Unfortunately, with Biden & Co. bought and paid for, perhaps the Chinese no longer consider it "mutually assured".
Being "Armed" is ineffectual without the Will to use those Arms.