"The USA plan to make a new atomic bomb 'every ten days'" Topic
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| Tango01 | 16 Jan 2023 8:58 p.m. PST |
… in 1945
"Imagine that it is 1:25 in the afternoon on August 13, 1945. The world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, just one week ago. Russia declared war on Japan on August 8. The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9. Yet World War Two still rages on.
Hundreds of American and British servicemen are dying every week. Japan is suffering far more casualties, but Japan has not surrendered. It looks like an invasion of the home islands of Japan will be needed to end the war. The projected Allied casualties for such an invasion are that hundreds of thousands of servicemen, most of whom would be American and the rest from the British Commonwealth, will be killed or wounded. The Japanese casualties are projected to exceed one million, but nobody knows how long Japan will be able to continue the war…"
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Shagnasty  | 17 Jan 2023 11:11 a.m. PST |
I've always wondered what capacity we had in the closing months of WW II. Interesting. |
| ultimatewargamer | 17 Jan 2023 12:17 p.m. PST |
The U.S. had a third bomb ready in sept 1945 |
Old Glory  | 17 Jan 2023 12:46 p.m. PST |
We had our chance and lost it like idiots.
Now just look. |
| Tango01 | 17 Jan 2023 2:46 p.m. PST |
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