Re: Final destinations in space



John Savard wrote:

It would have been a *good* thing for the people of Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and various other countries if the United
States had recognized the true nature of the Soviet Union immediately
after World War II, and laid preparations to ensure that it could
respond in force if any dictatorship attempted to obtain nuclear
weapons.



Unfortunately, if we had the sole monopoly on nuclear weapons we could pretty much demobilize our military, as we could flatten anyone who even looked at us funny with just a few bombers.
The vast military production of WW II was what finally ended the depression, and to shut down the entire "military-industrial complex" as that comsymp Eisenhower called it would have been popular with neither the military or the industrialists.
I don't know if Oppenheimer really was a Soviet spy or not, but a lot of powerful people in this country probably had no trouble at all with a nuclear armed red menace as a way of keeping business as usual going.

Pat
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