Before the invasion, the US would have almost certainly have dropped more A bombs including wiping out Tokyo.
A bombs including wiping out Tokyo.
If Godzilla didn’t get there first, that is.
Tokyo was already completely gone. We wouldn’t be nuking that. It was utterly destroyed by the B-29 fire bombing raid.
“The strikes conducted by the USAAF on the night of 9–10 March 1945, codenamed Operation Meetinghouse, constitute the single most destructive aerial bombing raid in human history. 16 square miles (41 km2; 10,000 acres) of central Tokyo was destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless”
It wasn’t in line for a nuke.