U.S. Warns North Korea Of Overwhelming Response

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In  the early days of the war in Japan a physicist requested a more powerful vacuum tube for the power supply on their cyclotron device.  With the war on, they couldn't get it.  Little details like that that were only found out about after the war ended by military types in the US is the sort of thing that leads to sleepless nights. People don't think much about Japan building a nuke in the 40s, but it wasn't beyond the last doubt sort of thing.  That they had scientists interested in such things and could suss out weapon effects when they were finally used is scary.

Beyond the last doubt, probably not. Beyond reasonable doubt, sure. They neither had carriers nor the materials to build the bomb. The Germans didn't have it either, which was known. But they at least had a carrier system in theory, with the V2.

All this fear mongering of if we don't do it, the others will do it, is very old hat and never had any probability from the get go.

When they were finished in Los Alamos they had used all the Plutonium available in the world at this point in time. And they knew it. Everything else is sheer propaganda to justify what happened then.

Japan was ready tu surrender on one condition: That the emperor stays untouched. And that happened anyway - after they dropped the bombs.