If you were were to believe Russia's patriotic propaganda, they won pretty much everything and anything. This seems to have come straight from the same cookbook.
The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan, Stalin Did (2013)
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Re: The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan, Stalin Did (2013)
#12Apparently a literal coup involving a thousand people to prolong the war, even after the bombs had dropped, is the same as "being ready to surrender". And apparently the Soviets, who had essentially no capability to launch a amphibious invasion, were a serious threat to the Japanese home islands. You know, compared to the country which had just launched the most ambitious amphibious operation in history. The Japanese…
I’m aware this is a tangent, but I couldn’t find any mention of nuclear weapons in the wikipedia page for Operation Downfall https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall Now, Operation Downfall was supposed to be many, many times larger than the Normandy landing, so the wiki page cannot possibly be complete. If you have some details about the planned use of nukes, could you provide a link please? I’m especially…
>...I’m aware this is a tangent, but I couldn’t find any mention of nuclear weapons in the wikipedia page for Operation Downfall
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall
There is a section of that wikipedia page that talks about the planned use of atomic bombs during the invasion:
>Nuclear weapons
>On Marshall's orders, Major General John E. Hull looked into the tactical use of nuclear weapons for the invasion of the Japanese home islands, even after the dropping of two strategic atomic bombs on Japan (Marshall did not think that the Japanese would capitulate immediately). Colonel Lyle E. Seeman reported that at least seven Fat Man-type plutonium implosion bombs would be available by X-Day, which could be dropped on defending forces. Seeman advised that American troops not enter an area hit by a bomb for "at least 48 hours"; the risk of nuclear fallout was not well understood, and such a short amount of time after detonation would have resulted in substantial radiation exposure for the American troops.[81]
>Ken Nichols, the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District, wrote that at the beginning of August 1945, "[p]lanning for the invasion of the main Japanese home islands had reached its final stages, and if the landings actually took place, we might supply about fifteen atomic bombs to support the troops."[82] An air burst 1,800–2,000 ft (550–610 m) above the ground had been chosen for the (Hiroshima) bomb to achieve maximum blast effects, and to minimize residual radiation on the ground as it was hoped that American troops would soon occupy the city.[83]