• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    They didn’t have that many nukes at the time. Plus people would be upset if they nuked a white people country

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      2 months ago

      The manhattan project originally start as a way to defeat Germany, it just wasn’t ready in time.

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      2 months ago

      The plan was the bomb Germany with it first, Japan only got the bombs because we weren’t going to not use them once we had them.

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      Time was a real factor, Germany was on the verge of nuclear technology too. Many lives were spared because Hitler over extended himself. By the time the Allies were at Berlin they were on a campaign of submission.