(September 10, 2017 at 8:16 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(September 10, 2017 at 8:08 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Tactical nukes have always been around since they were invented. Ten atomic bombs were reserved for the invasions of Japan. We would drop one on a particularly difficult point-of-resistance, wait thirty minutes, then march our troops through ground zero.
As it were, for the invasion of Japan, the next usable bomb after fatman that was dropped in Nagasaki wasn't available until well after the planned date of operation Olympic, the initial invasion of Japan proper. So the story of planned use of tactical atom bombs is somewhat suspect.
Really? We had two more in the Pacific at the time of the surrender, they were used for Tests Able and Baker rather than transport them back to the US. And we had a production schedule, initially of one per month, more as things got routine. I've studied this issue for thirty years, I'm confident of my material.
