rightwinger
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We had three bombs
One was tested at Alamogordo, one at Hiroshima, one at Nagasaki
We had the bomb, nobody else did
At that time, no invasion was necessary. We could make more bombs. We did make more bombs. Time was on our side.
Except that it really wasn't.
What we were realizing by 1945 is that the Soviets couldn't really be trusted. they were installing Soviet puppet states in Eastern Europe, and now they were in a position to send hundreds of divisions into China, Korea and Japan.
We'd have gotten to the same place, but with the Sovietns firmly in charge of the region... As it was, we still ended up losing China in 1949, and the Korean war in 1950. Imagine if the USSR had completely occupied Korea and maybe half of Japan.
The Soviets did not have the time to execute an invasion of that magnitude
We had the bomb. Japan’s days were numbered
We had other options than giving Japan two days to decide and killing 150,000 civilians