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Nuclear Weapons Development in a Different Time?
The United Nations was just established. It had very little capacity, and neither side trusted each other. You would need an incredibly intrusive and monitoring system in order to ensure that the weapons didn't spread. So yeah, but one interesting thought experiment we might run is that what if nuclear weapons were developed at a different time? Not in the wake of World War II, but in an era where you have greater transparency,. satellite imagery, and a full suite of scientific capabilities that just didn't exist at the time.