Well, they tried to gloss over it, but if you put 2 + 2 together, you quickly realize how it is that the Soviet Union -- a country barely able to feed itself, totally reliant on lend-lease American arms to save itself from Stalin's pact with Hitler -- managed to build their own Bomb 4 years later. It is a historical fact that the project was run by a communist and shot through with soviet agents. It's a wonder they didn't beat us to it.
But I was very impressed that Hollyweird allowed any mention of that fact into the story. I enjoyed the movie, and I hope the image of that detonation gets seared into the brain of every human on Earth. I just wish there was some way to make them realize that bomb was a firecracker compared to any nuclear device ever assembled since then.
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