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[Watchmen] Why was U.S. unsure of whether or not Dr.Manhattan could stop all the nukes once they had launched ?

Was it a question of power or did they think that he just did not care enough to do so. Would love to hear your thoughts.
gpt
I believe it's most likely the latter - since Dr. Manhattan already shown that his powers have essentially no limits, and he's closest thing to a God that setting has, it's almost always the matter of him caring enough to do something, opposed to not being able to. And he already was showing a lot of detachment from humanity, so...