Grumpy lefties and VENONA

[Max Sawicky]

A knowledgeable fellow told me once that as late as 1964,
the Soviets only had four deliverable atomic bombs.
The temptation to make a first strike must have been
intense.

mbs


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 While I believe
Soviet scientists would have developed atomic bombs on their own anyhow,
why should trying to help them to expedite the process be considered
"indefensible" by _leftists_?

I just showed _The Atomic Cafe_ to my students.  You can see, in this
documentary, American politicians arguing for the first strike.  Without
the speedy Soviet development of atomic bombs, the USA might have dropped
them on more places than just Hiroshima and Nagasaki. . . .