# If the US had Atom Bombs During the beginning of WW2 Would We Use them and How to Win War?

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**Created:** [July 23, 2010, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-us-had-atom-bombs-during-the-beginning-of-ww2-would-we-use-them-and-how-to-win-war/547703 "2010-07-23T12:57:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-us-had-atom-bombs-during-the-beginning-of-ww2-would-we-use-them-and-how-to-win-war/547703/61 "2010-07-26T15:35:30Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> Only since the 50’s have we been conditoned (and rightly so) to consider using Nukes as “unthinkable”.

Specifically, it became unthinkable once others became able to do it to _us_.

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