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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I agree with some conclusions, without the use of nuclear weapons the Russians would have gobbled up a large chunk of Japan, and we would have probably seen the Koreanization of Japan. It would have also effectively given the Russians improved Naval Capability in the Pacific which meant that the Russians would have been able to better threaten the West Coast.
The Invasion of Japan would have gutted the U.S. Marine Corp and the Army in brutal land battles, with the large number of casualties America's economy would have been harmed
Without the example of the horrors of the nuclear bomb, we would have probably seen them used in Korea when China engaged in the war, MacAurther would have had free range to drop nukes on Chinese troop concentrations.
If the bomb hadn't been shown to be so effective, the Russian's might not have thrown as big of an effort into their own atomic arms program.
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They should have dropped an atomic bomb on Hanoi too, end the Vietnam war before it started.