ABSTRACT
The entry of the United States into the war, only seven weeks after Tube Alloys was set up, terminated Britain's independent scientific contribution to victory almost as drastically as it did her independent military action. The United States insisted that the psychological effect of capturing Berlin was less valuable than the prospect of effecting the destruction of the German Armies by an advance into the heart of the country. By contrast, the United States, in spite of the demands of the European theatre, had an economic and industrial potential the Japanese could not hope to match. The success of the West, and the check to the Russians on the Oder Neisse line, had much to do with the increased hostility of the U.S.S.R. Stalin bristled with suspicion over an abortive secret plan to secure a cease-fire from the German forces in Italy. The incident convinced him that his allies were aiming at a separate peace.
