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Because to that date, the USSR obviously was not being able to attack Japan if it attacks the USA, but the USA was at a low start to attack Japan if it gets busy with USSR. At the same time, the Germany attack had stuck, so any Japan war would be one vs one. Afair, the Japan government was chosing 1 from 3 (USSR, USA, British forces in SE Asia) for several months. As Japan had only one attempt, due to the fuel embargo, it attacked the dangerous opponent. In 1941 Kwantung Army was staying prepared, and iirc in June 1942 it was planned to attack the Soviet Far East, as most of Soviet forces were moved to the German front. But the growing war activity in Pacific made to take away its aviation, then troops, so by 1943 it became mostly a territorial army to oppose then-future Soviet attack, and control the captured Chinese territory. They had the choice either to attack somebody immediately, or not fight at all, because gasoline is not storable well, but is expendable even in peace time. Several years later no Zero would be able to takeoff from the carriers. So, they chose the USA for the reasons above. Also, in 1918, during the Civil War, the nearly-Soviet Russia was being paralyzed by the revolt of the Czechoslovak legion, Japan did the best she could at the Russian Far East (Vladivostok, Baikal, etc.). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_intervention But again the American "expedition forces" were acting mostly to supress the Japan expansion (to prevent the Japan military bases from Manchuria to Beringia), than against the Soviets (as it was stated , "the Bolshevik government is not our enemies, as they represent one of the biggest parties in Russia"). Once the Whites at Far East had been defeated, all alien forces were withdrawn. Later, in 1920s-1930s, there were several more Soviet-Japan incidents and conflicts in Manchuria, on the Soviet-China and Soviet-Mongolian border, Also, this again demonstrates the tricky US-GB relations in WWI epoch. GB had no objections against the Japan annexion of the Soviet Far East, but US was not glad at all, because it's right in front of them. At the same time, the US provided the way to escape from Russia for the Czechoslovakian legion, who was actively supported by the GB to help the Whites. Actually, the Soviet Russia was the American wall against Japan coastal expansion in Pacific, and a ram to weaken the UK at the West and South, Sometimes Germany was interfering, but that's temporary circumstances. The future of the global British Empire was more important. Unless the non-nuclears ones are treated as allies of the nuclears or belong to their sphere of interest, which is usually so. Who isn't, rarely makes an interest to invade. In Vietnam War even three opposing to each other nuclear countries were involved (SU, US, and PRC), but the war itself had deep historical and ethnic roots, not caused by somebody's intervention. Every time I see a spider, I dream of one. In other places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_flamethrowers_in_the_United_States And the "pioneer's (scout's?) flamethrower" (aerosol can + lighter) is eternal classics forever. Yeah, true. During the Cold War the only example was Afghanistan. Least by a superpower. Afghanistan twice, Iraq twice, Vietnam, and so on, The president of Panama is still sitting in the US prison if still alive. *** Back to the inevitability. The fission is inevitable to discover, because they discover it by irradiating a piece of natural uranium with weak Po-Be neutrons, like they did with alpha, beta, etc. It couldn't be prohibited, as nobody knows of the fission. When the fission was discovered, it was discovered in natural uranium. The idea of critical mass had appeared immediately, and thus the theoretical possibilty of an explosion was realized at once. But the pre-WWII critical mass estimation was made for natural uranium, and resulted in numbers of tens of tonnes or more, even with ideal reflector. So, the nuclear bomb was first invented not as a viable design, but as a physical possibility. Something like LHC killing the Earth with strangelets. At the same time this valueof the mass was clearly illustrating the possibility of a primitive nuclear reactor. To build the reactor, they needed slightly enriched uranium. So, they began the study with bomb is mind, but just as "let's first build a reactor, then if possible build a huge bomb", as the optimists were estimating the critical mass as several tonnes, or maybe even less. Once they had run the primitive reactor, they got: 1. A multispectral neutron source, which clarified the tricky picture of "cross-section = function(neutron energy)" for 238 and 235 isotopes separately. This gave the optimistic 48 kg critical mass of pure 235. 2. Plutonium, which had even smaller critical mass (10.5 kg in alpha-phase, ~16 in delta). 3. Tritium, instead of their fruitless and desperate attempts to find its natural source. Exactly same studies with exactly same results they would have even without any intention to build a bomb. After the fission had been discovered, the reactor-grade enrichment and the experimental reactor was inevitable. After they realized the picture and got in practical amounts the U-235, Pu, and T, the pure 235 exraction (read - weapon-grade enrichment) was inevitable just to clarify the picture. On having the weapon-grade 235, Pu, and tritium, a practical experiment to check the theory in a far part of desert was just needed to confirm the physical theory. Once the test had succeeded, the clear understanding, that others will be irradiating natural uranium with Po-Be neutron source and discover the fission, would make necessary to analyze the practical aspects of others' nukclear weapons. Once you have invented the others' nuclear weapons which can be aimed at you, you already have your own design of it. As the nukes don't need magic crystals and mostly need fine electrics and fine chemistry, you are inevitably developing everything required for. Once you have an ability to produce every part of your own nukes, you start thinking of double-purpose technologies, usable in nukes, to peacefully avoid making them. Thus, you even don't notice when all components of the nukes are ready and stored, and all you need is to shape the pieces of proper isotopes. And the only question is: can you do it without being preventively nuked, or will your patron let you do that without sending friendly troopers to your capital and to your plants.

The true hype train. Every car is a bomb.

Btw, just have read a comment on another forum. It's said that Nagasaki was a backup aim instead of Kokura.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-4 # Mi,too

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You can see this caption?.. But it's UV! Waitender! Beeskey!

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"It's a sound of silence." (c)

In the nuclear bomb invention all HOW-NOT-TO are equal to HOW-TO. That's what makes it inevitable. *** Internet and computers are many times more complicated than a primitive nuke. They need invention, nuke doesn't. *** The flamethrowers were invented from the stupid countryside funs.

Floor 3956: You realize that the 3955 standing animal was your school prefect, this time sober. Now you start thinking: "Cogito ergo sum... Cogito is a little cog. A big cog would be cogissimo? But what must you summarize?"

Is there air around?

One should keep his eyes on the eyes: Whether they built it just for lulz? First passengers arrive soon?

Peaceful?

Using primitive acutes and umlauts instead of the true, hardcore diacritics is cheating.

Floor 3593: The drain tank of the Hogwarts toilet.

Granted. A warm, relatively rainy summer. A rain twice per week or more often, the temperature still has not exceeded +31°C. I wish for rain every two days.

Banned for thinking that aluminium was not being produced until the alumina electrolysis in 1886.

Two weeks before the February revolution Lenin was desperately writing that he doesn't see a chance for it to happen. It didn't predate him, just his party got riding it, once it had started. 6 000 The billions were put later, when the studies had achieved practical numbers. The nation provides the resources for salary and profit, regardless of the aim. The government (as representatives of the ruling elite) implements the political elite decisions, how to use the collected resources. They could print 15 000 t of silver medals instead. Who cares about Europe? Best Europeans will escape from the wasteland to US, others will be buying American goods to rebuild. No need to be sociopathic. To be an inspired introvert is enough. Also, 99% of nuclear bomb studies are not about nuclear bomb. It just appears as a field experiment when everything is ready long ago. The losses were playing no role there. They were keeping fighting for a decade more, with several times greater losses. The army was consising mostly of peasants from overpopulated and poor rural areas. The common idea was that soon the landlords' plowland will be confiscated and distributed between the peasants. (Actually, 90% of it was already sold to or captured by the peasants, so the expectation was false). In the village communes the plowland was belonging to the commune, and redistributed every seven (?) years between the peasant families, proportionally to the number of workers, i.e. adult men, (not eaters, i.e. everyone), to get everything from the poor plowland. As a result, it was normal when a family of a father, his elder son, his wife and two kids had twice more plowland than a family of a man, a wife, and eight kids. A widow with kids got nothing, and they went beggaring. So, every killed man was a significant loss for his own family in sense of the plowland redistribution, especially in the coming great one. But the total casualties were just decreasing the village overpopulation problem. Even if the WWI had finished quickly, or was bringing to the peasants any profit, it would just make it burst several years later. The urban part had another problem. By the late XIX the Urals industry was absolutely obsolete (using charcoal, with no minable coal around), while the Donbass industry was just built with help of the British, French, Belgian, and Deutsch concessions, and rich of ore and coal. But as the foreign concessioners already had their hi-tech plants at their home countries, they weren't needing them in situ. So, the local industry was stagnating and mine&refine-oriented, while still growing and perspective (six planned automobile plants, first heavy bombers in the world, all kinds of artillery and armored cars, wide electrification). The way to solve the problem was to totally drive the peasants from the villages, leaving as few as possible; build all kinds of idustry and use the former peasants as workers; mass produce agricultural tech and synthetic fertilizers to let the few peasants feed all of them. And they tried to do that. But the problem was that the synthetic fertilizer (Haber) and mass production of trucks and tractors (Ford) got available by 1913 (so, in Russia by +3..5 years). And exactly then the WWI happened, where the tsar and his government wisely dived in. In any case, driving the peasants away from villages and forcing them build the industry would be in any case solved only by military force. Just it could be done more softly, with less than a million of casualties instead of the total Civil war. I.e. in the early 30s the government was doing what should be done in early 20s, for much greater price. Japan did not have a desire to march south until the late 1930s. Russia was humbled in 1905 and did not pose a threat in the same way the resurgent USSR was. Just thirty years between. Without Civil War in Russia, it would take fifteen, and Roosevelt's authority would mean nothing in the world of British Empire. Only non-populated territories? Well... The US national economy was a little bigger than the economies of the European countries together.

Skyrim boats are not real.

He's breaking out a fitting rod. Why is the Gotham not covered with anti-batman nets?

Spatra is banned for traffic obstruction.

We should take a blackhole, split the pairs of the virtual particles, and collect antimatter. That's all.

The 50..100 Mt bombs make sense when the bomber has realistically single attempt to drop something and try to escape, rather than heroically flying and dropping thirty nukes one-by-one, without being shot down (at least just by a tactical nuke, blown at its way). It's better to drop 1x100 Mt per lost bomber, than 1x10. Accurate MIRV and cruise missiles made it unnecessary. The bunch is not used since late 1950s. A melon-shaped thing with two fuzes at poles. A single-point test causes a subcritical explosion of kilograms-to-tonnes yield. Also, there was an egg-shaped design with one fuze, but it's not a fact, that it's better, because two are a safety measure. They aren't. 99% of nuclear weapon preliminary studies are just exploration of atomic structure, long before anything military can be implemented. Once the fission has been discovered, the neutron multiplication gets immediately realized, and the idea of critical mass is right at hands. The next steps follow without pause, and a couple of years later you suddenly have everything required to weaponize the idea, and a working industry of uranium enrichment. There it no "nuclear bomb development", it's just a military application of nuclear safety countermeasures. By calculating the lowest possible critical mass at optimal conditions, you automatically get the nuclear weapon design, even with most peaceful intentions. The British Empire was weakened by the WWI, and had to sign the Balfour Declaration in 1926, later dismissing its dominions for everyone's (mostly American) use, under the danger of German occupaton in coming WWII. The US best minds were building the Bolshevik military plants in early 1930s, when the British Empire was the direct main enemy for the Bolshevik government, while the pedant Germany was an ambivalent enemy. So, the British Empire capital had moved from London to New York. A funny thing: actually, WWI&II are a Great British Imperial Revolution, lol. Are you sure, US was needing defeated Germany too early in WWI? Just T.Roosevelt would be told "Be Taft!", and he would be Taft. Or another Taft-like frontman would be presented to the electorate. Who doesn't get the words, flies to Dallas. The revolution was caused by various economical and political factors, and was inevitable. Just the losses could be minimized, a decade not lost, and more pragmatic people lead it. strongly opposed by the British and the Russian Empires, and France as well. A remarkable fact: in addition to Roosevelt, somebody forgot to ask the Manchu, lol... Also the British Empire is laughing at the American cowboys talking of League of British dominions. There was no communism in 1904, but still was Japan army in Manchuria and Korea. Also, both Japan and Germany still have no colonies to mine resources for their industries., or something to pay for them.. As we can read, the Einstein's input costed 6 000 USD for US. Actually, rich Roosevelt could just pay from his personal wallet, if not the American bourgeous individualism and mercantilism. Real funding was given in 1942, and not because of Einstein (After the discussion in Bohemian Grove, as ru.wiki says, and it looks reasonable, as unlikely POTUS can throw billions of USD just because he can. Even the British monarch has to ask the Parliament). Also, Einstein even was not included in the Manhattan project, of course because of his pacifism, rather than his realistic understanding of his place in science. (A talented and lucky middle scientist, having combined Pointcare and Lorenz studies, in the pool of scientific seniour sharks. Wisely was staying far from the pool, doing his own science and not interfering and messing with others. ) USSR had a ten of ICBM, so probably Miami Beach would become a little more sunny, but not the whole US. Nobody works on bombs, but the bomb still comes as a bonus. Actually, even a mad scientist would develop it in his tower. The only problem is the uranium enrichment. It takes time, so it should be a dinasty.

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