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arethuza on Feb 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Space Shuttle’s Military Threat

Not sure that would have been a good idea - the Soviet Red Army was immensely strong and had just done most of the work in defeating the Nazis and the US didn't have man (any?) atom bombs left at the end of the war.

lainga on Feb 1, 2019 [–]

They didn't have any to start with in May '45, the Trinity test was in July

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