Nuclear weapons do not exist - Would WW3 of happened?

This should be in ASB. Even without nuclear weapons ending WWII they would eventually have been invented. And if you are positing they were impossible, this CERTAINLY belongs in ASB.
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Kill most of the physicists and chemist from the late 1800's and you'll have delayed nuclear weapons for a very long time.
 
Kill most of the physicists and chemist from the late 1800's and you'll have delayed nuclear weapons for a very long time.
Don't need that many, Arther Jeffrey Dempster and F. W. Aston ought to be enough if the Spanish Flu gets them and their work goes unpublished and undiscovered for several years. I could easily see that pushing the discovery of U-235 off till after the war, which delays the bomb significantly.
 
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