Bernard Baruch gets vilified for his plan, but can you imagine if a conservative Republican presented proposal today? cc: @wellerstein
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@wellerstein Any good sources that you know of Soviet policy during this time-period, other than build a bomb as quickly as possible?
@aaronstein1 If they had been asked pre-Hiroshima, maaaybe. But still probably not. By 1946 it was waaaay too late.
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@wellerstein Agreed. Once Stalin found out about Manhattan Project, the race was on. -
@aaronstein1 Well, and found out that we had zero intention of being a partner with him on it. Might have changed things. But hard to say. -
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