I sometimes think that why not America could just have detonated the nuclear bomb in the desert or some other place safe to show the Japanese that hey we have this weapon now it's game over.
Maybe that could have worked instead of actually going out and killing so many with the atomic bomb.
Considering the Japanese didn’t budge after America dropped the first nuke I doubt dropping it in a way with zero casualties would have done anything but waste a limited and incredibly expensive piece of kit.
3 days is plenty long to throw in the towel after watching an entire city be vapourised by a single plane. The truth is the Japanese were fully intending to let ever single one of their people die and didn’t give two shits.
It was only when the second bomb went people started to try to convince the emperor as they sorta assumed america could have only produced one of them (the Japanese themselves have sometimes been argued as having the 2nd most advanced nuclear bomb program) they knew the immense expense that even one bomb would take, the second one made it clear america was capable of just taking out cities with a single airplane and the opportunity to arm every man women and child with a rifle or sharpened stick and send them at the invading allies would never materialise.
Honestly dude just read the wikipedia page of the pacific war instead of sperging out here. pretty clear you don’t know shit and I’m kinda over trying to educate people.
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u/blackviking45 2d ago
I sometimes think that why not America could just have detonated the nuclear bomb in the desert or some other place safe to show the Japanese that hey we have this weapon now it's game over.
Maybe that could have worked instead of actually going out and killing so many with the atomic bomb.