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No it wasnt ready yet.
The US made no explicit threats to "nuke" anybody during the war. If they had it would not have meant anything to anybody, because only very good physics students understood the destructive potential theoretically available from nuclear fission. To the average person such blather would have sounded like science fiction.
The closest the US came to issuing any nuclear threats was in the Potsdam Declaration, made by President Truman in late July, 1945, while at an allied conference at Potsdam Germany. Truman had received word that the first test bomb had been successfully exploded July 16. Until the moment that first bomb detonated, no one could be sure it would work. This was over two months after Germany had surrendered. So nobody threatened Germany with an unproven device no one was sure would even work. The whole project was incredibly secret anyway, and no one dared breathe a word of it. There would have been no blustering about it because the US was already deathly afraid the German physicists led by Werner Heisenberg were already working on their own bomb, so if the US started talking about its own nuclear devices the fear would have been that this might spur the Germans to accelerate their own efforts to create a bomb. The Germans already had guided missiles, which nobody else had, and had been bombarding London with them for months. If they had a bomb to stick on them the results would have been a catastrophe. The US did not know until the war was over that the German bomb program had taken a wrong turn and was nowhere near as advanced as had been feared.
What Truman did say in the Potsdam Declaration was that the Japanese needed to surrender immediately, or face "prompt and utter destruction", "the like of which the world has never seen". That's pretty clear. But the Japanese made no effort to give up.
The commander of the world's first nuclear bomber unit, the 509th Composite Bomb Group, which dropped the bombs on Japan, was Paul Tibbets. He was at the controls when the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. He had formed and trained the group for "special" bombing missions for over a year. Tibbets related that the plan was always to drop the bombs on Germany, but they just were not ready in time.
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∙ 12y agoNo, Germany was only working on small experimental reactors. Werner Heisenberg was the director of the German nuclear project and had only requested funding for a small slow low priority project aimed at perfecting power reactors sometime after Germany won the war. By the end of the war they had a very small unfinished heavy water moderated pool reactor built. Apparently the possibility of building a fission bomb had never even occurred to Heisenberg during the war, as while held as a prisoner in Britain when he was given the newspapers announcing the atomic bombings of japan he was completely shocked. However with the information supplied in the newspaper articles, it only took him a few hours to think it through, write the necessary equations, make a few diagrams, then declare he understood how the bombs worked and could have built them.
See the book Heisenberg's War for details.
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What was weapon was developed during World War 1?
Nuclear weapons
Why did the Soviets make nuclear weapons?
The U.S developed nuclear weapons to scare the Japanese and end world war 2 for the Americans ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wrong! Actually the U.S. developed nuclear weapons in WW2 in an arms race with the supposed Nazi Germany project to do the same. Unknown to us, the German project soon stalled and concentrated on reactors not bombs. When Germany surrendered in spring 1945 the U.S. project continued as it was so close to finishing. In August the only 2 nuclear bombs used in war were dropped on Japan, prompting their surrender and ending the war. They were developed to defend against a possible German threat but got used against Japan to end the war. After the war, development slowed but was prompted by fears of the expansion of Soviet Communism. Development accelerated again after the USSR's 1949 test of their first nuclear bomb, causing an extended arms race.
Who had nuclear weapons first?
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Why didn't the us use nuclear weapons during the Vietnam war?
Because while we were supporting the south, the north were supported by the USSR, who also had nuclear missiles, and we didn't want to start a nuclear holocaust
What countries in the Cold War used nuclear weapons?
No country used nuclear weapons. Countries such as the U.S., U.S.S.R., U.K, China, France, & India did test weapons, but none were ever used in a conflict. no one fought at all during the cold war it was just threating the whole time
What was the effort during WW2 to develop the first nuclear weapons of the US?
Manhattan Project.
What was the nuclear project called in World War 2?
The code name for the U.S. effort to develop nuclear weapons during WWII was "The Manhattan Project".
General Leslie groves?
General Leslie Groves was the leader of the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons during WWII.
What three types of weapons were used during the cold war?
Nuclear weapons, Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons.
What were nuclear weapons used for during the cold war?
Intimidation
What country used nuclear weapons offensively?
The United States used the atomic bomb offensively during WWII. That is pretty close to nuclear weapons.
Which countries used nuclear weapons during the war?
The only country that has ever used nuclear weapons in any war was the US, at the end of WW2.
What was the purpose of nuclear and atomic weapons during World War 2?
The US wanted these weapons to be used against Germany, before they could use them against the Allies. However Germany was defeated with conventional weapons before these weapons were ready. So the US decided to use them on Japan as soon as they were ready, to end the war without having to invade Japan.
Did the US unleash nuclear weapons during the cold war?
No. No nuclear weapons have ever been used in an act of war besides the two dropped on Japan during the Second World War. The United States and Russia both produced enormous amounts of nuclear weapons during the Cold War, though none were used.
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Nuclear weapons
What was weapon was developed during World War 1?
Nuclear weapons
How many nuclear weapons were made during the cold war?
8
