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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
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The War on the Soviet Union
When we say we had the bomb, we had a few partly assembled handmade bombs. It took almost as long to assemble one as the battery life of the batteries that would drive the original charge that would set off the explosion. When they closed Berlin in 1948 and we had to supply Berlin by air with coal and food for a whole winter,. We moved to B-29s to England. They were not outfitted for nuclear weapons. The weapons that were dropped in Japan had a single hook that held the entire bomb. That's very different from dropping a whole rose.
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