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To: wagglebee
By Spring, 1945 the Japanese Navy had been pretty much destroyed and the Allies controlled the Pacific. They wouldn’t have had any means to fly a bomber to the United States.

They wouldn't need a bomber. Load it into a sub and try to make it into San Francisco Bay or the port of Los Angeles on a day when the prevailing winds are blowing east to maximize fallout on the city.

169 posted on 08/11/2010 6:41:12 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Early in the War that might have been possible, by 1943 or possibly early 1944 it would have been nearly inpossible for a Japanese sub to make it to the West Coast.

I just don’t think the Germans would have given an atomic bomb to the Japanese. The Nazis didn’t like the Japanese and they would have had a much better chance of bombing London or Moscow.


182 posted on 08/12/2010 5:13:58 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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