[wjcsux]

The Japanese surrendered because they didn’t know that we couldn’t nuke them a third time.

[cassiusking]

Rumor has it we had two more which Patton wanted to drop on Moscow

[elcid1970]

“The Japanese surrendered because they didn’t know that we couldn’t nuke them a third time.”

IIRC, a third bomb would have been ready by September 1945.

Then there was a captured P-51 pilot being tortured by the Japs & who had no knowledge of the atomic program. Hearing his torturers discussing what had just happened to Hiroshima & Nagasaki, he “confessed” that the U.S. had a hundred more atomic bombs ready to go, and that Tokyo was the next target.

This was forwarded directly to Hirohito & the imperial war council, and they finally decided the situation was hopeless; either surrender or see Japan extinguished as a people and a culture.

[DCBryan1]

The Japanese surrendered because they didn’t know that we couldn’t nuke them a third time.

We could have by SEP/OCT 1945 with the Tinian bomb and 5-12 bombs by end of 1946.

[Ozark Tom]

How about the bombing campaign anticipating up to a dozen drops based on assembling materials available at that point?

[OldMissileer]

The Japanese surrendered because they didn’t know that we couldn’t nuke them a third time.

We had one more available. There were more being built as production had started and would have been ready in about one month.