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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 23, 2015 - 12:54pm PT
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Brilliance and insanity go hand in hand. Just met a guy at the store in town 30 min ago who was wearing a vetran of the bulge hat. I talked to him a bit. He told me he was in the 30th division and was wounded and taken prisoner in the Ardens. he was pretty spry all things considered.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Dec 23, 2015 - 01:38pm PT
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As for hypotheticals, if Hitler hadn't invaded the USSR and hadn't declared war on the US the following December, and if he had left the war to his generals, then Germany would have developed the first nuclear device and today would rule the world.
I'm not so clear on that.
I just read a book that took a comprehensive look at the Manhattan Project effort, and I was really surprised that I had no idea just how BIG the project was>
I don"t see how germany could have duplicated that effort>
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Dec 23, 2015 - 01:51pm PT
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I just read a book that took a comprehensive look at the Manhattan Project effort, and I was really surprised that I had no idea just how BIG the project was>
Not only that, the project to build the B29 was even bigger,(originally conceived as a bomber to take the war to Europe without the availability of Brittan) then you had the production of everything from the M1 Garand, Victory ships, Microwave radar, the proximity fuse and on and on.
As large as the Manhattan project was, it was still a small fraction of the total wartime output.
When I served my apprenticeship one guy I worked with had the post war job of removing the silver bus bars from an aluminum smelter in Washington and replacing them with copper so that the silver could be returned to the US mint. Literally every available dime went into the war effort.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 23, 2015 - 02:00pm PT
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We're also lucky that Hitler was too stoopid to understand the potential of
nuclear research so it was a very low key project not helped when the
awesome Norskies blew up the heavy water plant in Norway.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 23, 2015 - 03:10pm PT
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Not sure how we could fight Hitler had he not declared war on us.
We could have easily just gone after the Japanese with tremendous fury, and just continued to supply the Allies.
Then Hitler drops some dirty bombs on London,...
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