[OldNewYork]

I thought Russia was only able to go nuclear with stolen information from our program at Los Alamos - the spy ring is infamous. Also, why then was Japan so stunned by Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in disbelief of the threat prior, ignoring our warning?

[Spruce]

The Germans were VERY close to the bomb. They had "New York capable" aircraft on the drawing boards. If not for the Norwegian heavy water sabotage efforts, the US would have been the recipient of the first Atomic Attack in history.

The Japanese had access to the exact same science as everyone else on the planet. They were front-runners in the Atomic bomb race, as well.

[FreeAtlanta]

If the Japanese had beaten us to the atomic bomb, we would have had to surrender. Is there no wonder that Obama and the communist loving left want to disarm us of our nuclear weapons? They want us to surrender to the communist.

We - as a fair, Christian centered, capitalistic democracy - are the only people on the planet who would not have conquered the world with a nuclear monopoly.

Think how much better the world would be, if we had.

[donmeaker]

Japan did have a nuclear program, but after Hiroshima were convinced that U235 was so hard to separate, their physicists reported it was a bad miracle, that it would take another year to make another bomb like that. The Nagasaki bomb showed reaction products from Plutonium which they knew was made from Plentiful U238, and any number could be made quickly. MAGIC decrypts gave insight into that level of strategic thinking, and also told us that they would claim their surrender was largely due to USSR entry, to try to deny US benefit of the bomb.