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beckyromero · 36-40, F
@caesar7
Or if the Manhattan Project had started about a year and six months earlier.
FDR then would have gone to Tehran in November 1943 with the A-bomb ace up his sleeve (i.e. knowing of a successful atomic test, knowing we wouldn't need the Soviets help with regards to Japan, knowing he could force the Soviets to respect Poland's pre-war borders and, [b][u]most importantly[/u][/b], finishing off the Third Reich with one bomb.)
TARGET: Nuremberg
Or if the Manhattan Project had started about a year and six months earlier.
FDR then would have gone to Tehran in November 1943 with the A-bomb ace up his sleeve (i.e. knowing of a successful atomic test, knowing we wouldn't need the Soviets help with regards to Japan, knowing he could force the Soviets to respect Poland's pre-war borders and, [b][u]most importantly[/u][/b], finishing off the Third Reich with one bomb.)
TARGET: Nuremberg
SomeMichGuy · M
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@SomeMichGuy [quote]The bomb was wasted on the Japanese.[/quote]
🤔 Tell that to the wives, sons, daughters and parents of the U.S. servicemen who would have lost their lives during an invasion of Japan.
🤔 Tell that to the wives, sons, daughters and parents of the U.S. servicemen who would have lost their lives during an invasion of Japan.
SomeMichGuy · M
@beckyromero The numbers of Americans supposedly saved--the number finally floated up to 1,000,000, where is stayed--were always made-up.
And the deaths the "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" [u]did[/u] cause...smh
The yields were in a particularly horrible region.
And the deaths the "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" [u]did[/u] cause...smh
The yields were in a particularly horrible region.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@SomeMichGuy
How would YOU have liked to have been president in 1946 or 1947 - after hundreds of thousands of Americans were killed in an invasion of Japan - while admitting to the American people that the U.S. has a weapon that likely would have ended the war in 1945 WITHOUT an invasion but you decided not to use it?
What would YOU have said to their families?
What would YOU have said to the injured who survived the invasion, who lost limbs and suffered other horrible injuries?
Decemeber 23rd was the 74th anniverary of the hanging of Hideki Tojo. I am happy that he survived his suicide attempt. The pity was that we could only hang him once.
How would YOU have liked to have been president in 1946 or 1947 - after hundreds of thousands of Americans were killed in an invasion of Japan - while admitting to the American people that the U.S. has a weapon that likely would have ended the war in 1945 WITHOUT an invasion but you decided not to use it?
What would YOU have said to their families?
What would YOU have said to the injured who survived the invasion, who lost limbs and suffered other horrible injuries?
Decemeber 23rd was the 74th anniverary of the hanging of Hideki Tojo. I am happy that he survived his suicide attempt. The pity was that we could only hang him once.
SomeMichGuy · M
@beckyromero So good that you know how many Americans would have died.
Let's locate lost treasure, too.
Let's locate lost treasure, too.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@SomeMichGuy
We DO know how many Americans DID die in places like Iwo Jima, Saipan and Okinawa.
The Japanese would have fought even more tenacity to defend the home islands. They still had a six million man army in August 1945.
Between June 1944 and May 8, 1945 (V-E Day), the United States suffered 552,117 U.S. casualties in the European theater of operations. Of those, 104,812 were killed in action.
Do you feel the Japanese were inferior to the Germans in the will to fight and defend (and die, if necessary) to defend their homeland?
We DO know how many Americans DID die in places like Iwo Jima, Saipan and Okinawa.
The Japanese would have fought even more tenacity to defend the home islands. They still had a six million man army in August 1945.
Between June 1944 and May 8, 1945 (V-E Day), the United States suffered 552,117 U.S. casualties in the European theater of operations. Of those, 104,812 were killed in action.
Do you feel the Japanese were inferior to the Germans in the will to fight and defend (and die, if necessary) to defend their homeland?
SomeMichGuy · M
@beckyromero I think you should review the scholarship about this which was discussed on the 50th anniversary of the bombs being dropped.
NPR had an interesting show about it.
NPR had an interesting show about it.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@SomeMichGuy
I've read plenty about the bomb. Truman made the right decision. And if it had been ready in time, FDR would have ordered it dropped on Germany (which was the point for the Manhattan Project in the beginning).
I've read plenty about the bomb. Truman made the right decision. And if it had been ready in time, FDR would have ordered it dropped on Germany (which was the point for the Manhattan Project in the beginning).