If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a noise?:rolleyes:
First…Find an uninhabited island that the Japanese were watching…would they believe the US? Would they think it was just an island filled with lots of conventional ammo set to go up in a spectacular fashion?
The Japanese had made their stance clear…fight ’till the last.
Why didn’t the RAF send a nasty note to Hitler saying…
“If you don’t shape up, we’ll bomb Dresden?”
Or…”We have this neat really secret bomb that destroys dams…in fact it’s so secret, we won’t even show it in the film that will be made ten years from now.
so please surrender or we’ll use it.
If we want to play “what if” try this.
If you were Churchill & FDR and had the bomb in 1943, would you have used it to end the war that much earlier?
Imagine all the losses from D-Day and the final push into Germany being avoided…the concentration camps being emptied sooner.
Seems to be about the same decision Truman faced in ’45.
As for the use of the bomb, I understand things a bit better now, the tree falling in the forrest was perfect thank you.
Although, my “what if” was about the types of aircraft, but your “what if” certainly raises a good point about the war in europe. Bex
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