[jimdigris]

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As a matter of fact, the Americans had exactly three nuclear bombs at their disposal, of which one was detonated at the Nevada Test Site (Trinity). They had put billions of dollars into building these three bombs. After the war, it took them quite some time to build new ones because the uranium and plutonium weren't readily available.

And before somebody comes up with the old Germany-almost-had-a-nuclear-bomb-built-by-Heisenberg: NO. Read BOOKS about it. I recommend "Heisenberg's War". (Sorry, I'm getting tired of reading stuff like this... IF you want to phantasize, do it RIGHT.)

not according to General Leslie Groves in his book "now it can be told". He says they were ready to deliver a third bomb 14 days after the deployment of fatman, and 1 every two to three weeks afterwards. I have also read Heisenberg's War, Heisenberg' himself said they werent even close and it was deliberate action by scientists that slowed them down. In another book I read they had bugged the captured scientists room and when they learnt of Hiroshima Heisenberg' put them to the task of determining how they achieved it. In 48 hours they had a couple of crucial calculations worked out, and a crude plan for a gun type ie U235 weapon, without any other info avaailble to them.