re: When was the United States at its peak - in relation to the world?

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how many would be have needed ?

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For what? To take over the world? A fricking lot.

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besides we would have had the Nazi scientist we could have built more bombs maybe ever the missiles to deliver

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We didn't need Nazi scientists to build nuclear bombs. We were far ahead of them. We lacked the materials and the process to make them was slow.

Now we could have bluffed but that would have had limited effect.