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by leonidasrup
22 days ago
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The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was just the beginning. At the time of bombing of Nagasaki already a third nuclear weapon was been assembled. There were plans to increase the A-bomb production rate. After November 1945 U.S. would produce a atomic bomb every 10 days. The production rate for year 1946 was planned to be 6 bombs every month. https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1... So after 1946 there would be not much of Japan left to invade. The bombing of Iran is nowhere the scale of bombing of Japan, see for example the fire bombing of Tokyo. |
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Had they not, the carpet bombings would have continued - not just the fire bombing of Tokyo, another 71 cities had also been bombed flat. With H&N that made a total of 74 cities down and a list of targets for future bombing still ready to work through.
FWiW the HE+incendiaries bombings used more planes but were cheaper overall than (at that time) atomic weapons - and (at that time) caused much the same amount of damage, injury, and death.