yes, but for many reasons they made mistakes that prevented progress. By 1943 they had decided it would not be practical to build nuclear bombs before they won the war with conventional weapons & they scaled their program back to mostly basic research aimed at building nuclear power reactors after they won the war.
Nuclear weapons, Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons.
Intimidation
The United States used the atomic bomb offensively during WWII. That is pretty close to nuclear weapons.
The only country that has ever used nuclear weapons in any war was the US, at the end of WW2.
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.
They would have used them on both London and Moscow and might have won. This is why the Manhattan Project was necessary!
Nuclear weapons, Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons.
Intimidation
The United States used the atomic bomb offensively during WWII. That is pretty close to nuclear weapons.
The only country that has ever used nuclear weapons in any war was the US, at the end of WW2.
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.
Nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons
They didn't.
Nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons
Not during the Korean war...