ThePowerPoint

ThePowerPoint t1_j65vd9i wrote

It would have. Getting an army big enough to invade by land that close to mainland Japan would take months, possibly a year or more. They’d easily make more atomic bombs in that time too and would drop them on the other critical targets. The Japanese would inflict some damage but the damage the Japanese would have taken would have been much worse. The damage done by the bombs was terrifying. Japan was ready to fight an invasion force before they saw the damage from the bombs. They knew more would be on their way eventually if the fighting kept going. It also takes about 2-3 months to create the bombs so there is no way we’d be “out” of atomic bombs for long

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ThePowerPoint t1_j65sco0 wrote

Ah yes because I’m sure they were expecting the war to stop after those two and weren’t manufacturing more already just in case. Plus even if they weren’t at war, they were the first atomic bombs that worked and were the deadliest weapons in history, of course the government is going to build more until they get regulated

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