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Did the Soviet Union use the knowledge they achieved from spying on the U.S. to develop their nuclear weapons?
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∙ 14y ago
Absolutely the first real clue was when President Harry Truman told then Soviet Premier Josef Stalin that we had successfully tested a nuclear device, and Stalin's reaction was that of not being surprised - he already knew from Soviet spy Klaus Fuch, who was attached to the Manhattan Project and was feeding information to them.
The Soviets had also captured German scientists working on missile technology at Penemunde and the Nazi Heavy Water experiments. The information stolen from the Manhattan Project helped the Soviets accelerate their program and detonate their first weapon in 1949, just 4 years after the Trinity test at Alamogordo.
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What Arab countries have nuclear weapons?
Pakistan has about 100 nuclear weapons.
Did they use nuclear weapons in the holocaust?
No, Nazi Germany had no nuclear weapons.
How was the use of nuclear weapons involved in Korean war?
No nuclear weapons were used in the Korean War.....
Where are nuclear fusions used?
Only in nuclear weapons
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Why did nuclear weapons develop?
because their time had come.
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no
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Was japan trying to develop nuclear weapons?
In WW2 I believe they were trying to.
What is the name of the government program to develop nuclear weapons?
Manhattan Project
Why government have to continued to develop nuclear weapons?
cos they can and u cant do anything about it!
Should nations have the freedom to develop nuclear weapons?
Any answer to this question would be pure opinion, but I sincerely believe that nations should not have the freedom to develop nuclear weapons. The more nations that have them, the more likely it becomes that they will be used.
Can the earth will free from nuclear weapons?
Your questions asks for an opinion. My opinion is no. The knowledge of how to build a nuclear weapon is out there. There are too many people with different views and values for nuclear weapons to just go away.
What was the effort during WW2 to develop the first nuclear weapons of the US?
Manhattan Project.
Should Iran be allowed to develop nuclear weapons?
No because they will just attack us.they already have to many nuclear weapons they dont need anymore.
Why countries feel they must develop nuclear weapons and who are these countries?
They feel the need to have nuclear weapons so they have protection against nuclear threats or actually anykind of threat. Countries might be Iran, Iraq, Russia(U.S.S.R)
Why might nations want to retain or develop an arsenal of nuclear biological and chemical weapons?
the dodgy ones
