• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    9 days 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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      The manhattan project originally start as a way to defeat Germany, it just wasn’t ready in time.

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      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.