Re: What was the biggest mistake made during WWII?
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Creative use of the atomic bomb in the autumn of 1945 could have solved the Red Menace.
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Among other things. Too many people have pooh-poohed the great benefits of nuclear aggression. However, the US blew its wad on the two bombs dumped on the Japanese and no others where yet made at that time. Although production could have been began immediately on more bombs the Manhattan Project after the war ended was for a time in a precarious and strange position. In fact the US stockpile in late 1949 was still only about 200 bombs. That was pre H-bomb which is a much more beautiful weapon. See the Epilogue in Richard Rhodes excellent book, The Making of The Atomic Bomb.
-Zeno
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