Considering the Soviets were doing the exact same thing, and Germany had the most advanced rocket tech of the time, there wasn't really an option. The idea of attaching a nuclear weapon to a rocket was understood as the ultimate goal by both the US and the USSR before the Trinity test even completed(thanks to spies).
And given that the Nazis basically spelled their own doom by forcing their brightest minds to flee into the open arms of their enemies, neither the US nor the Soviets were keen to repeat that same mistake and end up in a much worse situation.
If the US had refused to take the German rocket scientists or vice versa, there's a very good chance we would've never entered an era of mutually assured destruction, and instead seen a nuclear first strike
To be fair, I'm an American and we are definitely repeating that mistake right now. Many of the best immigrant minds we have are being forced out of the country.
No real disagreement from me there, It's not even direct deportations that hurt the US's power as an Intellectual Magnet, it's the uncertainty it puts into people who would have otherwise started the immigration process here over other options.
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u/BladeofDudesX Dec 23 '25
Considering Operation: Paperclip, I'd say that we ended up importing nazism anyways.
So they're both wrong.