Daedwartin
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Also, the atomic bomb would have destroyed them WITHOUT a fight. Their we're more willing to fight a war to the last man, so long as the enemy had to actually attack them. Nukes...made it so we could kill them by just bombing them. You know, we were planning to invade them in the next few months. Phase One: Drop nuclear bombs on every major Japanese City. Phase 2: Invade nuked cities. Phase 3: capture rest of Japan. Phase 4: defeat resistance force... The catch: phases 1&2 would have killed so many, bushido, the Japanese were already starving, the plan called for landing 3 days after the bombs went off....right into a heavily radioactive area, and The USSR. The expected causalities were expected to be 3-10 million american forces...note the american part. They didn't calculate all allied forces, just US forces...nor did japanese causalities get calculated. It would have quickly become the deadliest front in the War...and one we secured our beach head, the USSR would have invaded Japan...it was not going to be pretty. It's actually believed that the combination of the US being able to completely destroy Japan and the fact that the USSR had declared war only 2 weeks before...and Germany not their to distract them( the USSR was the most powerful land force in the world at the time, and had the best stuff that was army related...the US had better planes and ships, but the soviets had the better tanks...). This convinced the emperor that he needed to surrender to the US as quickly as possible. Stalin was ok with this, as he had already by then occupied what he wanted, the territory that Japan had conquered from Russia in 1905...he would have lost his head likely if he hadn't. Ironically, the losing of that territory in the Russian-Japanese War of 1905 was one of the key events leading to the Russian revolution.
Also, the nukes served as a good way to tell the soviets that we have something that will ruin your day. Stalin already knew about them though. One of the key British researchers was a soviet spy. Espionage at its finest. It made it possible for the USSR to make Nukes in the time it did. Helps when you use the US and UK as the bush-beaters.
