If the Japanese had beaten us to the atomic bomb, we would have had to surrender. Is there no wonder that Obama and the communist loving left want to disarm us of our nuclear weapons? They want us to surrender to the communist.
We - as a fair, Christian centered, capitalistic democracy - are the only people on the planet who would not have conquered the world with a nuclear monopoly.
Think how much better the world would be, if we had.
I don’t know that Japan having the bomb before us would be enough for Americans to surrender. You have to keep in mind the differences between America then, and America now, unfortunately. Plus, our own atomic program would have been right behind theirs, even if that were the case - and we had so much more territory unreachable to them than the reverse.
We could have avoided much of the trouble of the Cold War, true, if not for that spy ring at Los Alamos. I don’t think the scientists Russia captured were as well-supplied as the ones we did, even if they approached the same caliber.