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Well that is a very interesting article to read. I wouldnt neccesarily agree it was the single most important thing to come out of WWII, but i would agree it was detrimental to the winning of the war. I wish the article would have explained how they discovered it by accident in a little more detail (aka what were they originally trying to build?).

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Detrimental? I take it you mean to the Axis winning the war?

The thing that makes the Magnetron and associated technology's handover so significant (to me) is not necesarily the material contribution that it made. The other massive significance is in the sharing of extreme cutting edge technology between two states (even before one state had entered the war), not something that happens very often, and an indication of the surprising levels of trust that were being achieved (despite other differences) between two world powers. There's also the significant concession being made by Great Britain in admitting that the Americans were the only ones that could take the technology onwards, not an easy thing to accept in a state that was only just getting inklings of the retraction from Empire and decline of it's previously huge power on the world stage. Suez was 16 years away but there were, perhaps due to the war, immediate signals of potential future decline.
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Adam.

I think Von Poop hit the nail on the head.

It takes a lot to accept the situation and act upon it. Such an act did a lot to gel the cooperation for the rest of the war.

I don't know if the Axis did anything like this, atleast not on such a scale.

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Souldn't the word have been "instrumetal" instead of "detrimental"?

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