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2020
July 2020
16
Meditations
What if the Trinity test had failed?
If the first nuclear weapons test had been a flop, would the world be better or worse off?
Tags: 1940s, Bomb design, Counterfactuals, Harry S. Truman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, Trinity, Truman
2016
September 2016
30
Redactions
FDR and the bomb
If he had lived to make the decision, would Roosevelt have dropped the atomic bomb?
Tags: 1940s, Counterfactuals, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Germany, Harry S. Truman, Japan, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Vannevar Bush
2014
22
Meditations
Tokyo vs. Hiroshima
How many people would have died if an atomic bomb had been dropped on Tokyo in early 1945, instead of firebombs? And why does it matter?
Tags: 1940s, Counterfactuals, Firebombing, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Speculation, Tokyo
June 2014
27
Meditations
A bomb without Einstein?
How important was Albert Einstein's work or personal intervention to the making of the atomic bomb? Not as important as most people think.
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, Albert Einstein, Counterfactuals, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Historiography, Leo Szilard, Manhattan Project, Vannevar Bush
2013
October 2013
 4
Redactions
Would the atomic bomb have been used against Germany?
If the first atomic bomb had been ready in 1944, would it have been used against the Nazis? Surprisingly, Roosevelt may have been interested in doing it.
Tags: 1940s, Counterfactuals, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Germany, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project
2012
June 2012
18
Meditations
What If Truman Hadn't Ordered the H-bomb Crash Program?
What would have happened if the US hadn't decided to try and build an H-bomb in early 1950? Some alternative scenarios are considered.
Tags: 1950s, Bomb design, Counterfactuals, H-bomb, Harry S. Truman, Nuclear testing, Soviet Union
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