What if the US had developed, but not used the atomic bombs?
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@Axtremus said in What if the US had developed, but not used the atomic bombs?:
@Mik said in What if the US had developed, but not used the atomic bombs?:
By the time it was developed there was nothing left in Germany to drop it on.
How so? What metrics do you use to come up with the judgement that says Japan still had assets worth bombing but Germany did not?
For starters the first atomic bomb was not ready before July 45, three months after Germany surrendered. The Allies all had troops in Germany, so we'd have been dropping it near our own troops. Japan would have been a bloody nightmare to invade, with an uncertain conclusion.
@Mik said in What if the US had developed, but not used the atomic bombs?:
Japan would have been a bloody nightmare to invade, with an uncertain conclusion.
This.
I read an article about the estimated cost in lifes (on both sides) if the US would have NOT used the atom bomb and would have done a traditional land invasion. It would have been much much much higher than the loss from the atom bombs.
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An older video by Bill Whittle.
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