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Offline DumbAss Tanker

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Re: Oscar Wilde whining about Hiroshima, Nagasaki
« Reply #25 on: October 24, 2011, 01:19:30 PM »
Quote from: docstew on October 24, 2011, 01:03:41 PM
Actually, dropping the second bomb was a HUGE bluff, as all the fissile material that the US had produced to date was contained in the bomb tested at Alamagordo or the ones dropped on Japan. Had they decided not to surrender, we would have been left with no option but to invade.

Well...or wait a few months.  We weren't really ready to invade yet anyway, at that point, it probably would've been Spring of 1946.
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Re: Oscar Wilde whining about Hiroshima, Nagasaki
« Reply #26 on: October 24, 2011, 01:45:29 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on October 24, 2011, 01:19:30 PM
Well...or wait a few months.  We weren't really ready to invade yet anyway, at that point, it probably would've been Spring of 1946.

While fire-bombing the shit out of 'em, which is something I really don't have a problem with.
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Re: Oscar Wilde whining about Hiroshima, Nagasaki
« Reply #27 on: October 24, 2011, 03:19:04 PM »
Quote from: docstew on October 24, 2011, 01:03:41 PM
Actually, dropping the second bomb was a HUGE bluff, as all the fissile material that the US had produced to date was contained in the bomb tested at Alamagordo or the ones dropped on Japan. Had they decided not to surrender, we would have been left with no option but to invade.

I read somewhere once that we had enough bomb grade material to put together one more...but the next one after that third one would have been sometime after november 1, 1945.
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Re: Oscar Wilde whining about Hiroshima, Nagasaki
« Reply #28 on: October 24, 2011, 07:33:49 PM »
Quote from: docstew on October 23, 2011, 02:30:30 PM
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