(July 5, 2018 at 2:10 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: We could have dropped two more bombs on Japan in the next few weeks, and then the production schedule called for three a month after that. If they weren't needed for tactical use (meaning no invasion at that time) they could have been used strategically.
The Japanese estimate of US resources from their own War Production Office was that we could produce seventy-four times the material Japan could produce. The head of the office was advised that he could be assassinated for "defeatist talk."
And yes, "Yamato", the spirit of Japan was the end-all and be-all for the militarists. More rational minds thought that you had to HAVE a country before you talk about it being great.
74 times might apply to some commodity, like oil. But overall it probably was way too passemestic. In terms of actual munition and armament production it was probably more like 10 - 15 times
