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Bear in mind the Japanese authorities had the threat of Soviet Occupation / splitting up of Japan well in the fore of their minds when they surrendered. The Russkies had already occupied some small Japanese islands near Hokkaido about which the Japanese continue to carp.
Not a generally well-received view in this part of the world, but one worth considering.
As you pointed out, fallout would've been a deterrent.
And that group of people waging gorilla war, was a very small minority as well. The majority were just glad to have an end to the war, as any population that was bombed back into the stone age would.
if the war in europe had stalled out or gains ground to slow achievments on both fronts
It's also unavoidable recognising the huge section of the German public who (too late) recognised the sickening true nature of the nazi's 'national socialist state' at home, where constant surveilance, routine denunciation, petty brutality and even public murder execution - at the merest fickle whim of an armed nutter - were a daily constant towards the end.
Not forgetting political courts justice.
Many in Germany gave a huge sigh of relief that the barbaric crazyness was over, even if it did mean defeat in the war.
We put the Japanese in camps that were not airtight and we provided them with little or no wood to keep themselves warm. We treated them unfairly, all in the name of protecting the country. Whatever happened to not throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Let's say they were heavily jaded towards the Japanese if racist is an innapropriate term.
The original plan was to drop both "A-bombs" on Berlin and Tokyo at exactly the same time. This would have been quite a statement to say the least.
That could have caused a bit of an upset with the Russians, French and British, as well, since they didn't know that the thing worked until the first test on July 16th., 1945, over two months after the end of the war in Europe.The original plan was to drop both "A-bombs" on Berlin and Tokyo at exactly the same time. This would have been quite a statement to say the least.