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Shortly after the US successfully developed and tested the first atomic bomb in 1945, the Soviet Union successfully developed tested its own weapon in 1949 in the aftermath of WWII. This was made possible in part to spies who supplied certain critical secrets to the Soviets that saved them significant time from having to reinvent the wheel and at a time when they were recovering from the greatest assault ever endured by any nation. This was important as there were Americans such as General Patton and Britons such as Winston Churchill — to no surprise due to his lifelong anti-Russian, anti-Slavic and anti-Orthodox Christian fanaticism — who envisaged attacking the Soviet Union in 1945 starting with Operation Unthinkable, and then later on, other plans (codenames: Totality, Bushwhacker, Broiler, Sizzle, Shakedown, Offtackle, Dropshot, Trojan, Pincher, and Frolic). The nuclear option seemed to be the most rapid path toward total destruction and subjugation of the Soviet Union and thus US/British domination of the world. The only issue, beyond the fact that the Soviets were now the most battle-hardened and victorious forces in the world, is that there were just not enough nuclear bombs made at the time to use against Russia. Worried about these various unsettling threats, there were a number of sympathizers who sought to prevent this and provided the Soviets with information on the atomic bomb. Though there were a lot of actors in this drama, one in particular, biophysicist Theodore Hall, admitted supplying critical secrets pertaining to the implosion bomb in an interview that he gave many decades later in 1995. The way he explained it, he was worried that any nation that had a monopoly on nuclear weapons could use them to control and destroy the world. If the American Republic ever became fascist as Weimar Republic did (almost overnight), all humanity would suffer and the vast majority would die. In Dr. Hall's perspective, it was better to have a stalemate (with the hopes of detente) with both sides able to destroy one another (and be fearful of this), than to have one nation have a monopoly on nuclear weapons and thus de facto control of the world.
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