Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 321 (Part 2)" video.

  1. 12:00 I dunno about that. The Red Army was just a few miles from Hitler’s bunker by May 1945, which was when the US was pretty sure Thin Man was ready. If the US had detonated Thin Man over Berlin in May 1945 they would have killed 10s of 1000s of Red Army troops, which would have caused the USSR to declare war on the western Allies. There is no way Truman would have authorized that. There likely was no way the US could have had Thin Man ready earlier than April, and absolutely no way the US could have convinced Stalin to pause the Red Army at a point safely away from the effects of an atomic bomb over Berlin. Rather than saying “Ultra had no effect on the development of the atomic bomb,” the reality is that “the development of the atomic bomb had no effect on the end of the war in Europe.”
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  2. 35:00 Also, the majority of the energy liberated went up into the air. What if the explosives had been tunneled into the surface to a depth of, say, 100’ and the tunnels collapsed onto the explosives (which presumably would have initiated the detonation of said explosives)?
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