Timeline for Could a nation feasibly hide its early wartime use of nuclear weapons during World War 2?
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| Jan 11 at 6:57 | answer | added | Thucydides | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 2 at 12:43 | vote | accept | Dmyt | ||
| Dec 21, 2025 at 15:23 | comment | added | François Jurain | BTW, the clever tactics by which they defended against 3 successive invasions were worth spying on at the time, specially after the success of the 1st defense. What came out of these intelligence efforts? | |
| Dec 21, 2025 at 15:14 | comment | added | François Jurain | This scenario sends disbelief in orbital flight rather than merely suspending it. When a nation goes "officially" nuclear, this more or less spills every bean there was to spill: every body understands that they got the technology by every mean available, legal and illegal; and that their future nuclear strategy is worth spying on. What do they actually benefit from misdirecting (more exactly, from attempting to misdirect) about the actual timeline of their efforts? | |
| Dec 20, 2025 at 1:51 | history | protected | Monty Wild♦ | ||
| Dec 17, 2025 at 15:57 | answer | added | Marina Torres | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 17, 2025 at 12:35 | answer | added | MichaelK | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 17, 2025 at 10:13 | answer | added | Martin Kealey | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 16, 2025 at 22:58 | answer | added | Simon Crase | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 16, 2025 at 22:48 | comment | added | Simon Crase | How deep in the South Pacific? The Tonga Trench goes down 10,800 meters;-) | |
| Dec 16, 2025 at 18:19 | comment | added | Doug | I won't put it as an answer as others have covered that you would need to misdirect the investigation rather than deny it outright. But I only want to mention one anecdote. Before Trinity the Kodak company was already addressing problems with radioactive material from the radium industry contaminating their x-ray film packaging. Within 3 weeks of Trinity they knew "something" had happened that spread radioactive fallout over the US, and within 2 years knew it was cerium-141 from an atomic weapon. You can play with the timelines and blame, but the fallout will be noticed and investigated. | |
| Dec 16, 2025 at 13:03 | comment | added | vinzzz001 | Do you want to hide the fact that nation X USED a nuke, or the fact that nukes where used at all? Because if you can't hide the fact a nuke was used, simply move the blame to some third party. | |
| Dec 16, 2025 at 1:20 | answer | added | Kilisi | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 16, 2025 at 0:46 | answer | added | rartorata | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 18:58 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 18:50 | answer | added | Thibe | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 17:03 | answer | added | Trish | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 15:35 | answer | added | Mary | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 15:20 | answer | added | Robin Clower | timeline score: 14 | |
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| Dec 15, 2025 at 11:43 | answer | added | Richard Kirk | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 8:21 | answer | added | Mon | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 7:10 | answer | added | lidar | timeline score: 19 | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 7:02 | answer | added | Martheen | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 6:43 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 33 | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 6:24 | history | asked | Dmyt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |