Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "How China Got the Bomb" video.

@25:34 It wasn't just the broken treaty, The USSR and PRC were in open ground battles in Manchuria during this time. So from the Chinese perspective, they were caught between 2 nuclear armed enemies (three if you count England, a former colonial invader), which was highly motivational and worth the cost even during the worst of the "Grate leap forward", from their perspective. I know you hit on that, but I don't think you really emphasized that context enough.
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@mikebrown1970 The Battle of Zhenbao was the culmination of the territorial disputes that had been going on since '64. It was very much the scenario that drove their atomic program.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s Except you are wrong. Mining and refining materials is just an application of engineering, likewise so is assembling a device. Knowing cars exist and what they are made of is not the same as designing and building one.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s Knowing something is possible is much different than solving all the engineering that makes it so.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s Irony. Go build a warp drive then. I'll wait up.
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@kordelas2514 Do you know what irony is?
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@kordelas2514 Bless your heart. Take care and get help.
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Its very difficult to compress what entire books are written about into a 25 minute video. 很难将整本书的内容压缩成 25 分钟的视频。
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@NoNameAtAll2 kordelas is apparently an idiot who thinks nucl'ar weapons don't exist.
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@kordelas2514 I am not surprised at all that you have been called an idiot before. lol.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s Building a missile or bomb is "easy" when you know how to do it. So is refining toxic materials. What is hard is doing it the first time. Your comparison is not just wrong its meaningless. They are just applications of engineering solutions. You two loons go get a room.
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@nvelsen1975 Do I have access to nation-state resources? No I haven't. So your statement is stupid.
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@bartonfang Welcome to YouTube. And He did reference that most of the work was done by the Chinese. The assistance the Soviets provided is well documented. The rest, well that is editorial opinion license. It turned out that the Chinese have never needed their nuclear capability, so there is a valid argument that it was a misallocation of resources.
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@bartonfang I don't need to read people's mind, I can read history. Try it with projecting your preconceptions.
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