This is correct, the bomb was primarily a threat to Russia and China. Which is why both expedited development of nuclear arms after the war. They knew that if they didn’t the US would use them (almost certainly would have in Korea and Vietnam without deterrence and MAD back channels)
This is correct, the bomb was primarily a threat to Russia and China. Which is why both expedited development of nuclear arms after the war. They knew that if they didn’t the US would use them (almost certainly would have in Korea and Vietnam without deterrence and MAD back channels)
I doubt it was a threat to China given China wasn’t communist yet