soc.history.war.world-war-ii

>So I asked if it would have won the war had the USAF had the
>>bombs and a means to reach Japan with them in, say, January 1942. His
>>answer? "Probably."

I agree with him, and Rich Rostrum. In January 1942 the first bomb
might well have been dropped on Tokyo. That would have complicated a
surrender, but the Japanese would have managed something, especially
when the second city vanished. (Yokahama?)

If in this counterfactual version we are simply moving August 1945 up
to January 1942, then the third bomb was also coming on line. How many
cities does the poster think Japan would choose to give up so as to
pursue its move into Southeast Asia?


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