From: IN%"tallpaul@pipeline.com" 24-APR-1996 00:24:46.89

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It would have been better if the atomic bomb had been ready in time to use against Germany and Stalinist Russia.

It was ready "in time" to use against "Stalinist Russia" (which, BTW, was Stalinist "Soviet Union,").

It was not ready to use against the USSR/Russia (as should probably be evident from current nationalist movements in the non-Russian portions of the USSR, Russia tended to dominate that union) before the USSR was an ally of the United States. (I refer you to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the USSR and Nazi Germany.) After the war, they were still tied by various agreements; by the time that it became obvious that Russia had broken those agreements, it had nuclear weapons and an attack would have been suicidal. -Allen