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Re:Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids fo... by tzahola on Friday June 22, 2018 @04:10PM (#17376959)
Maybe if Germans had not wasted their engineering efforts on idiotic “superweapons” like the Schwerer Gustav [0] or the 130m long V-3 cannon [1], they could have succeeded with their nuclear program.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon

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Re:Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids fo... by a1369209993 on Friday June 22, 2018 @07:04PM (#17378249)
There's something hilariously ironic about that, given the next couple of decades.
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Re:Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids fo... by erikpukinskis on Friday June 22, 2018 @11:18PM (#17379327)
Given what?
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Re:Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids fo... by a1369209993 on Sunday June 24, 2018 @01:39AM (#17385121)
The Cold War and how nukes turned out to be a much greater superweapon than anything the Germans built.
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