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minus-squareLeon_Grotsky [comrade/them]hexbear3·4 years agoIIRC he didn't rush the test, he pushed back the conference with Churchill and Stalin. link
minus-squareNotARobot [she/her]hexbear6·edit-24 years agoI wasn't sure so I decided to look it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)#Detonation Wikipedia says that they detonated it a few days before ideal weather conditions to have the test done before the Potsdam conference. link
minus-squareLeon_Grotsky [comrade/them]hexbear4·4 years agoI stand corrected! I was doubly wrong because I thought it was the conference at Yalta, which I now see was still under FDR. link
IIRC he didn't rush the test, he pushed back the conference with Churchill and Stalin.
I wasn't sure so I decided to look it up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)#Detonation
Wikipedia says that they detonated it a few days before ideal weather conditions to have the test done before the Potsdam conference.
I stand corrected! I was doubly wrong because I thought it was the conference at Yalta, which I now see was still under FDR.