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= Don't Drop the Bombs =

Read to find out what could've happened if the atomic bombs weren't dropped in Japan during WWII.


After a day of hard thinking, PRESIDENT TRUMAN decided to not drop the bombs in Japan. He feels that, by not dropping the bombs, they will be saving hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese and even thought this could've brought an end to WWII, he didn't like the idea of sacrificing civilians for the War. His decision made many people who worked on the bombs furious because they also felt that the atomic bombs could've brought end to WWII. President Truman wrote a letter to the headquarters of the Manhattan Project, stating that he didn't want to drop the bombs in Japan after all. Upon receiving the letter from Truman; OPPENHEIMER became angry. He and his team had spent months making the super weapons, and he felt like The Manhattan Project had been a complete waste of time and he and the rest of the team knew that, they had poured every bit of strength into developing the bomb and even with the help of ALBERT EINSTEIN. Albert Einstein, in the first place, didn't wanted to see the use of atomic bomb so, he didn't feel as bad as Oppenheimer and the rest of the country.

After hearing about the President's choice, the army in the Pacific were ready to start Operation Downfall; the original scheduled invasion to end WWII. "Operation Downfall was scheduled to occur in two parts-- Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu, set to begin in November, 1945, and later Operation Coronet, the invasion of Honshu near Tokyo, scheduled for the spring of 1946" (Trueman 1). This operation was planned for the invasion of the Japanese mainland. Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz Ernest King, William Leahy, Hap Arnold and George Marshall were given the task of planning the invasion. There was a big problem with the strategy though; the Japanese would surely try to defend their country, and the risk of the casualties could be very high, even for the American public to know about. The U.S. army were going to launch bombing raids against key cities in Japan, but many people didn't like the idea of bombing because this would take too long, so, they planned on attacking the heart of Japan-- Tokyo.

It soon became obvious that attacking Tokyo would not be a very good idea at all. There were only so many places on the islands that the United States could land to attack, and Japan knew them all. They eventually decided on Kyushu and on the beaches near at Kanto, which were both a short distance from the target. Despite the Japanese being aware of the upcoming land invasion, the battle was planned to be set.

Because of the inescapable difficulty that the Americans would face after landing, chemical weapons were used for the first time since Hitler was put to a stop. "The use of poisonous gas has been outlawed by the Geneva Convention, but neither America nor Japan had signed this," (Truman 1). American intelligence knew for sure that "Japan was in no fit state to respond to a gas attack with a gas attack," (Truman 2), and were therefore unafraid to use the dangerous weapon. Not many people really calculated what the casualty rate would be but " The Joint Chiefs of Staff estimated that Olympic alone would cost 456,000 men, including 109,000 killed. Including Coronet, it was estimated that America would experience 1.2 million casualties, with 267,000 deaths" (Trueman 2).

For Coronet to be successful, Olympic would have to be, therefore, " some military figures were quite prepared to contemplate the use of poisonous gas against the Japanese on the beaches of Kyushu" (Trueman 1). Some evidence told the U.S. Army that Japanese were prepared to stop the invasion of Kyushu and push them back into the sea so, the use of poisonous gas was required, as they said, to successfully breach through the Japanese defenses. The landing for the invasion, which was Operation Coronet, would require a backup from Kyushu in order for a massive landing. The troops landing in Honshu would've, " received air cover from planes based in Kyushu, conquered in Operation Olympic" (Trueman 1). Since, the city of Tokyo is where the emperor of Japan lives, the Japanese would surely give their life to protect him, this was assumed since Kamikaze planes crashed into U.S. Ships. By this time, the war in the European theater was finished, the forces fighting there came to help win the war in the Pacific. The toll of deaths would've resulted in the hundreds of thousands in both American and Japanese troops.

If all of this were to happen than, the U.S. would still have won the war. completely destroying Japan, and ending WWII. Many people would've realized the brutality and savagery of war and then, like Germany, Japan would've been broken into small countries that would've been divided between the U.S., Britain and the SOVIET UNION which then would led to a peaceful country. Tokyo would be on the U.S. and Britain side. Then, Truman lost the election to John F. Kennedy. __The decision to not drop the atomic bombs on Japan significantly changed the future because since, the U.S. decided not to use the bomb, the USSR weren't as determined to build their own bomb to compete with the U.S.__

In the later years, U.S. helped the western countries get better from WWII without the threat of communism from expanding since the Soviet Union was in no shape to extend their empire to other parts of the world. U.S. came to become the world's Superpower with Soviets out of the way. Many people in the Soviet Union rebelled against the harsh rule by Joseph Stalin and overthrew him. The rebellion lasted a couple years but finally they manage to turn to democracy. __So, because the Soviet Union was no longer a threat to the world, U.S. and the rest of the world rested in peace but U.S. didn't continue to built atomic bombs because there was no reason to make any.__

__ However, even though there was peace and U.S.S.R was defeated, there was no COLD WAR and that meant that the CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS couldn't possibly occur. Time passed by and it was around the end of the 20th century, the United States never launched rockets into Space and therefore, the SPACE RACE never happened and U.S. didn't put the man on the moon in 1969 until a later time. __

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