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“Thanks for the update for this subject.
Well told as usual, though I believe the breakthrough noted was included in the 1940 ‘Tizard Mission’ a crate of essentially the country’s most sensitive technology, intended to pull the still neutral US closer in with cooperation, to allow the mass production of them and away from enemy bombing.
Including the cavity magnetron, an important radar development, areas where the US was active too but the UK also had made progress, this was where the breakthrough in atomic science you mentioned was essentially given to the US, plus areas where the US was then nowhere, jet engines.
The Quebec Agreement had a clause where both the US President and British Prime Minister would have to give final permission to use the weapon on an enemy.
Truman stuck to that with the bombings of Japan, making Churchill the first and hopefully only PM to authorize nuclear release.
Bevin, one of my political heroes, would go on to be the leading figure in persuading the US to do something unique in their history, agree to a binding security agreement which formed the basis of NATO in 1949.
Despite what many think, it was not the US corralling Europe to form NATO, the pressure came from the other side of the Atlantic.
Thanks again for all your great content.”
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08/01/23
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