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It sounds like Heisenberg is predicting that the USSR would not be a major power in postwar Europe. And this didn't turn out to be the case.

Whether this was a good thing or not, I think newsgremlin should ask some Poles.

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Nobody thought the USSR would develop nuclear weapons as quickly as they did. Had it taken them an extra decade or so I think there's a very possible future where the United States strikes, with nuclear weapons if necessary, any site where another state was developing their own nukes, in order to maintain sole possession of the weapons.

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