I know this may seem extremely irrelevant, but I had to bring this topic up. While reading the graphic novel, Fallout, and viewing the movie Day One, I remembered another scenario about Germany's endeavors in nuclear power. It was in an episode of Family Guy, in particular the episode, Road to Germany. Long story short, the characters travel back in time and wind up in 1939 Europe. To get back to their own time, they needed a uranium battery to power the machine that would return them to the present and there was only one place in Europe at the time that was studying nuclear power: Berlin. This was the big setup joke: Stewie>> "Berlin had weapons of mass destruction! How come America doesn't go over there and stop them?" Brian>>Oh, I don't know, maybe its because (slowly turns to television audience) they don't have any oil?" Stewie>>"OH! Clap Clap Clap." This little trade-off reminded me of how childish it seemed during Fallout and Day One of how America just had to have the nuclear bomb developed before Germany. It then brought up the memory of when the USSR launched Sputnik. In less than ten years, the United States had gone from a nuclear arms race with Nazi Germany to the space race with the Soviet Union; we didn't get the first probe into space, but we certainly got the first man on the moon. Are we that competitive as a nation?
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Unfortunately, the U.S. IS extremely competitive. Do you see any fast food spots sponsored by Japan, China, Russia, Brazil, France or even Britain all over the world? It's a thought worth pondering about because the U.S. has its McDonald's littered all over the globe.
What's next? Nukes? Space shuttles? A time machine? A giant laser? A large robot? It would be hilarious if a country like Japan developed it first (Which is no surprise, since Japan is high on its technological achievements).
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