The Soviet Union will not obtain a nuclear capability. Whether through diplomacy or force is up to Stalin. #HeatherNauertTweetshttps://twitter.com/statedeptspox/status/914557115645202432 …
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I've been thinking it would be topical to write something abt Truman's denialism of Soviet bomb... even in 1950s he claimed he wasn't sure.
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@wellerstein, but was he wrong in hindsight? -
Truman said (in 1953) that he was unsure they had detonated an atomic bomb in 1949. He was wrong on that, for sure...
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Ahhhh, gotcha. I was thinking about the ability to field a weapon on the battlefield. I thought that item wasn't available until '53?
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It depends on how far away the battlefield was! I don't know when Tu-4A went online but they had small stockpile as soon as 1950.
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Not clear when exactly they might have been able to use in Europe/Asia. But they didn't have ability to attack continental US until later.
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Speaking less for others than myself, I'm less concerned about the contiguous states than a certain 49th state. :)
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An interesting project considering the lengthy time between the first and second detonations.
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Not that long. 1951-1949 = 2 years, 1951 tests were new types. US tested one weapon type in 1945-1946, only tested a new ones in 1948.
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Agreed. But USSR did not have multiple detonations of Joe 1 type. Might suggest why HST was ambivalent about a Soviet bomb.
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"Those asiatics"!
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His racialized beliefs about those "asiatics" didn't help?
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