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EqualsThree

- If Einstein didn't exist, would nukes exist today?

- If someone killed Hitler in the past, would World War II last longer or shorter?

Sorry to ask, but i'm just so curious.

R3APER

No one has the capability of predicting alternate events. You can guess, but it usually ends up with ones persons opinion against the next.

therocketeer

@EqualsThree (View Post)
yeah we know the answers to those.

craZchick

1 i'm sure somebody else would've come up with the same idea eventually... 2 neither because tho germany would be out of the picture there would still be japan and other places that we'd have to worry about. (i am just guessing)

boxmein

@EqualsThree (View Post)
Einstein wasn't the only person researching nuclear weapons.

Wikipedia:

In 1934 the idea of chain reaction via neutron was proposed by Leó Szilárd, who patented the idea of the atomic bomb.

In 1934, French physicists Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie discovered that artificial radioactivity could be induced in stable elements by bombarding them with alpha particles, and in the same year Italian physicist Enrico Fermi reported similar results when bombarding uranium with neutrons.

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Hitler was the leader of the national socialist party, but not the only member. Though when Hitler died, his co-leaders signed the surrender treaty. They understood the position Germany was in.

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