Lest we forget

[Ozme52]

This is the information I recieved on my post, hope this clears it up for you


the time they distroyed the heavy water plant ... (Heavy water was needed for nuclear bombs) they
were 45 days away from full production when the arm forces distroyed the heavy water plant.

Goes to show how some teachers like to "impress" their students with over blown statements that don't hold water... heavy or otherwise.

That would assume those first, early large scale heavy water plants could actually produce enough weapons grade materials to make a bomb. It assumes the first bomb and/or bomb tests worked (I don't believe the first few Manhatten Project test firings worked. The first few only scattered their detonation materials across the desert... and we only actually officially set off one bomb with fissionable materials...) It assumes that the Luftwaffe could have delivered such a weapon... and it assumes that the allied forces might have capitulated after the first explosion...

After all, we had only accumulated enough material to create and deliver two bombs on Japan... and it took two explosions... and that's all we had available in our arsenal... and likely all we would have had for up to another year. Atomic weapons were expensive and we could actually do more damage during a fire-bomb raid.

Don't forget, Tojo didn't want to surrender despite the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The emperor, Hirohito, used the A-bombs as his rationale to finally, successfully override the Imperial Army hierarchy.