64 years ago today, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as atomic spies. A polarizing Cold War event: either an atrocity or justice.pic.twitter.com/XsS0wVtcaD
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Did Groves *actually* believe that it would take twenty years for the Soviets to get the bomb?
Groves' main reason — uranium rare, Soviets don't have much of it — was valid & true. But they compensated with extreme use of gulag labor.
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I wonder what he thought of his own scientists' opinion of Soviet scientific capability. And I wonder if he was influenced by German failure
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He trusted the instincts of the industrial contractors & engineers more than scientists; he did solicit their views on this in 1945.pic.twitter.com/1VcWkvNeLs
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And Groves was blinded by self-congratulation for 'his' accomplishment.
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And to be fair, the US barely pulled it off in time for use in the war! He wasn't wrong that it was hard work. But the Soviets worked hard.
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