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Britain and the US were allied to the Soviet Union during the Second World War, but relations quickly turned cold after its conclusion. In fact, the Western Allies made several secret plans on how to deal with the USSR preemptively if they were to threaten us – by nuking them back to the Stone Age! As we all know, America had a monopoly on nuclear weapons for more than 4 years. So, why didn’t the US obliterate its rival before the Russians got their own nukes, plunging us into the decades-long nuclear paranoia of the Cold War?

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0:00 – Intro
1:27 – Hypothetical nuclear war!
4:26 – 1945 on MagellanTV
5:34 – America’s first-strike plan

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Further Reading:

“Memorandum on Atomic Bomb Production” by Lauris Norstad – https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1945-Atomic-Bomb-Production.pdf