They discussed targets in great detail.
They only had TWO Bombs to drop before April '46. Trinity was the test, Little Boy and Fat Man were completed and Skinny Man was abandoned due to lack of materials. That's all.
If they dropped "demonstration bombs" the Empire could just hide the information from the citizens & carry on as usual until a city was hit. Then they could no longer hide the American Superweapon.
If that bluff was called then it was Operation Olympic with it's massive casualties or a negotiated surrender which = Japan Victory.
As it happened, the Empire couldn't hide the horrors of the Bombs, the public was terrified & there was a 50-50 vote to surrender with the Emperor breaking the tie. That's as close as it gets! Lesser measures would have failed.
Many US generals wanted it dropped > Soldiers were dying every day & the public was sick of war. Germany surrendered, why not end the war with Japan too?
Sounds like something that is repeated like a religious cult.
The US could have dropped the bomb on one of Japan’s almost uninhabited islands and proved it worked…
None of the generals wanted to drop it. Only Truman himself did.
They discussed targets in great detail.
They only had TWO Bombs to drop before April '46. Trinity was the test, Little Boy and Fat Man were completed and Skinny Man was abandoned due to lack of materials. That's all.
If they dropped "demonstration bombs" the Empire could just hide the information from the citizens & carry on as usual until a city was hit. Then they could no longer hide the American Superweapon.
If that bluff was called then it was Operation Olympic with it's massive casualties or a negotiated surrender which = Japan Victory.
As it happened, the Empire couldn't hide the horrors of the Bombs, the public was terrified & there was a 50-50 vote to surrender with the Emperor breaking the tie. That's as close as it gets! Lesser measures would have failed.
Many US generals wanted it dropped > Soldiers were dying every day & the public was sick of war. Germany surrendered, why not end the war with Japan too?