There were two atomic bombs used at the Bikini tests. ("Those weren't tests, they were trying to kill something!") The cores for both tests were already in the Pacific when the war ended. The NSA Bomb Docs include a discussion of production schedules with a guarantee that six bombs a month, MINIMUM, would be produced by October. So, by the end of 1945 TWENTY ATOMIC BOMBS would have been available for use against Japan.
I wonder how the US public would have called it. "If they don't surrender, keep bombing them until they do." They sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind, but it could have been so much worse.
I wonder how the US public would have called it. "If they don't surrender, keep bombing them until they do." They sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind, but it could have been so much worse.
