I know that others were working on it as well, it’s just that i think it’s typical for them to be one of the earliest to come up with different ways to blow people up
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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 days agoDo you really think no one else was working on such things?
Keep in mind the US had a demonstrated monopoly on atomic weapons for 4 years. They could’ve easily threatened the entire world to capitulate to them.
Kess8a@lemy.lol 3 days ago
h54@programming.dev 3 days ago
To be fair, the US did use the bomb ruthlessly and some claim unnecessarily. The US also basically menaced the non US-aligned world with their advantage.
My point being the US wasn’t better than her ops at the time.