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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
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The Importance of Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War
After the war, when our bomb planners and some of our scientists went into Hiroshima and Nagasaki, what they were interested in was the scale of destruction. That in turn influenced the judgment about what we needed to do these to be the Soviet Union. The Air Force once it realized that it could grandize its own share of the federal budget by cornering the market, if you will, on delivering nuclear weapons very quickly decided that they needed more bombs.
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