Continuation of Nuclear program in early Allied victory?

Continued Nuclear Programs?

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 77.8%
  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Some countries would continue

    Votes: 2 22.2%

  • Total voters
    9
If, however ASB, the Wallies and Soviets win WW2 say by 1942 or 1943, would the various nuclear programs of the allies continue? I would say no due to the cost associated with a theoretical idea with no current use, but I would like to see arguments for the other side.
 
Continue? Yes, that genie is out of the bottle in 1938-39.

If the early end to WW2 doesn't immediately result in a reshaped global East-West showdown there wouldn't be nearly the same urgency around developing it though, so I'd expect progress to run a few years behind the OTL schedule.
 
They would continue, not at full cost, but they would. By the end of 1942 Chicago Pile 1 has already gone critical, and a lot of the fixed costs had already been budgeted for

Absent the war I imagine instead of the shotgun, rush approach of OTL, it becomes more measured and focused on one route (probably Plutonium Implosion) as well as nuclear power
 
When Americans have started and probably already somehow long by 1942 - 1943 why to finish? And there is still Soviet threat. So surely they continue but the program will last longer, perhaps to end of 1940's or early 1950's.
 
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