Actually? The 3rd one: Skinny Man, was scrapped to make the Fat Man.
"In another few months" was likely April '46. With Operation Olympic set to go in November the new bombs would have been too late. It could not possibly be delayed, moral was already plunging across the Allied armies.
Had America's bluff not worked? Many millions would have died.
You are 100% right: a "negotiated peace" was the end goal of Japan's war plans after 1943. Negotiated peace = Japanese win.
I could have sworn bomb #3 was what would become more infamous as the Demon Core (since they would start experimenting with it instead of using it as a weapon). But I guess I misremembered that.
But either way, I think we both agree on the major point. Not only do I think the nuclear bombs were justified, I have found that it is a great way to ferret out those who have wildly ahistorical views or (more often) a political agenda they want to push, almost always an anti-American one. And it applies to both sides of the political aisle equally.
For sure, atomic weapons bring out the "moral relativism" and "history re-writers" from their hiding places.
"Oh it's BAD to kill someone with an atom bomb!" No, it's bad to kill someone with ANY bomb!
"They should have embargoed Japan until they surrendered!" That means no food, mass starvation and millions of horrible deaths. Not nice!
& etc.
Skinny Man would have been a 'rail trigger' bomb the same as Little Boy, except with plutonium not uranium. Trinity was a uranium bomb with 'implosion trigger' like Fat Man which used plutonium. So two each of uranium/plutonium & rail/implosion. Except they ran out of plutonium & could only build 3.
Actually? The 3rd one: Skinny Man, was scrapped to make the Fat Man.
"In another few months" was likely April '46. With Operation Olympic set to go in November the new bombs would have been too late. It could not possibly be delayed, moral was already plunging across the Allied armies.
Had America's bluff not worked? Many millions would have died.
You are 100% right: a "negotiated peace" was the end goal of Japan's war plans after 1943. Negotiated peace = Japanese win.
I could have sworn bomb #3 was what would become more infamous as the Demon Core (since they would start experimenting with it instead of using it as a weapon). But I guess I misremembered that.
But either way, I think we both agree on the major point. Not only do I think the nuclear bombs were justified, I have found that it is a great way to ferret out those who have wildly ahistorical views or (more often) a political agenda they want to push, almost always an anti-American one. And it applies to both sides of the political aisle equally.
For sure, atomic weapons bring out the "moral relativism" and "history re-writers" from their hiding places.
"Oh it's BAD to kill someone with an atom bomb!" No, it's bad to kill someone with ANY bomb!
"They should have embargoed Japan until they surrendered!" That means no food, mass starvation and millions of horrible deaths. Not nice!
& etc.
Skinny Man would have been a 'rail trigger' bomb the same as Little Boy, except with plutonium not uranium. Trinity was a uranium bomb with 'implosion trigger' like Fat Man which used plutonium. So two each of uranium/plutonium & rail/implosion. Except they ran out of plutonium & could only build 3.