6/30/2023 0 Comments Kickstarted ai war 2![]() ![]() ![]() PHOTOS: Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Before and After the Bombs Then on August 8, Soviet forces invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria, violating an earlier non-aggression pact signed with Japan. Despite its devastating effects, Japan didn’t offer unconditional surrender right away, as the United States had hoped. bomber Enola Gay dropped the uranium bomb known as “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, just days after the Potsdam Conference ended, the U.S. Igor Kurchatov was the nuclear physicist who headed up the Soviet atomic bomb project-the Soviet equivalent, in other words, of Manhattan Project mastermind J. diplomatic history at the University of California and the author of The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War and Brotherhood of the Bomb. “We now know that Stalin immediately went to his subordinates and said, we need to get Kurchatov working faster on this,” says Gregg Herken, emeritus professor of U.S. While Stalin didn’t take the atomic threat as seriously during wartime as some of his spies did-he had other problems on his hands, thanks to the German onslaught and occupation-Truman’s words at Potsdam made more of an impact than the president realized. READ MORE: Harry Truman and Hiroshima: Inside His Tense A-Bomb Vigil Roosevelt’s death, Soviet intelligence had begun receiving reports about the project as early as September 1941. program to develop atomic weapons just three months earlier, after Franklin D. In fact, while Truman himself had first learned of the top-secret U.S. ![]() side was that the Soviet premier didn’t know the exact nature of the new weapon. Truman never mentioned the words “atomic” or “nuclear” to Stalin, and the assumption on the U.S. President Harry Truman, with a radio at hand aboard the cruiser USS Augusta, reads reports of the first atomic bomb raid on Japan, while en route home from the Potsdam conference on August 6, 1945. But it also came as a relief, as it meant the United States wouldn’t have to rely on the increasingly adversarial Soviet Union to enter World War II against Japan. Soviet Intelligence Knew About the Bombįor Truman, news of the successful Trinity test set up a momentous choice: whether or not to deploy the world’s first weapon of mass destruction. “All he said was that he was glad to hear it and hoped we would make ‘good use of it against the Japanese,’” Truman later wrote in his memoir, Year of Decisions. On July 24, eight days after the Trinity test, Truman approached Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, who along with Truman and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (soon to be succeeded by Clement Attlee) made up the “Big Three” Allied leaders gathered at Potsdam to determine the post- World War II future of Germany.Īccording to Truman, he “casually mentioned” to Stalin that the United States had “a new weapon of unusual destructive force,” but Stalin didn’t seem especially interested. Truman received word that the scientists of the Manhattan Project had successfully detonated the world’s first nuclear device in a remote corner of the New Mexico desert. ![]() To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Soon after arriving at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, U.S. They're planning to release AI War 2 into early access in May 2017, launching it properly in October 2017, then supporting it with patches and maybe DLC or expansions.įor more on where the game's going, check out this design document. They're hoping to hit more stretch goals through ongoing crowdfunding on BackerKit.Īrcen say they'll take a two-week break for the holidays and to wait while Kickstarter processes payments, and then they'll crack on. It ended at $97,205 (£79k), hitting stretch goals for new music, the return of the Spire, a new type of AI enemy stalking you, and ancient interplanetary megaweapons. The second Kickstarter had a lower goal, shooting for $50,000 (£41k) rather than the first's $300k (£243k), to reflect its smaller ambitions but the campaign did hit enough stretch goals to bosh in a few extra ideas. Given the first Kickstarter's failure and Arcen's recent troubles, I'd worried about both this game and the whole studio but thankfully all is looking up. The original AI War is a fascinating RTS - and one of Adam's favourites - with a wealth of options in a war against an AI overlord who's playing entirely differently to you. It's a Christmas miracle: AI War 2 has hits its crowdfunding goal on its second attempt, its wonderful creators Arcen Games will live to dev another day, and we've probably all learned a little about feelings or some other sappy nonsense I guess. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |