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To: Thumper1960
It is merely a pity they surrendered so quickly. It would have been fitting had they fought a few more months, and a few more bombs.

Actually it is a good thing for both sides that they did surrender after the bombing of Nagasaki.

After the dropping of the two prototypes we did not have any A-bombs left and would not be able to make any more for at least a year.

It had taken over two years to produce enough U-235 and Pu-239 to make the tower test bomb, the Hiroshima bomb and the Nagasaki bomb.

Mass production facilities were being built but the material for the three bombs had been made at what were essentially laboratory scale or concept demonstration facilities.

Had Japan not surrendered after the second bomb was dropped a land invasion would have taken place.

We were out of nuclear weapons.

40 posted on 09/18/2007 4:45:06 PM PDT by Pontiac (Patriotism is the natural consequence of having a free mind in a free society.)
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To: Pontiac

We still had LeMay.


51 posted on 09/18/2007 5:25:03 PM PDT by 359Henrie (We need Gen. Curtis Le May, Liberals give us Gen. Wesley Clark.)
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To: Pontiac
Hmmmm.......

The sources I'd heard from stated that we had material for 10 weapons. I had heard we had acquired some materials from captured or abandoned Axis labs.

I'll have to go back to those sources and see how accurate they are.

116 posted on 09/19/2007 3:54:20 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
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