Posted on 05/27/2016 2:40:37 PM PDT by GraceG
There might not have been a North Korea dictatorship today.
The Soviet Union might have been ended in 1950. Just a thought.
[ There might not have been a North Korea dictatorship today. ]
That would be a plus, the minus may be with more casual military use of nukes we would likely had had a full blown nuke exchange with the commies.
There might not have been a communist Chinese dictatorship today.
But I’ll leave the alternate history to Harry Turtledove ... he does it much better than I ever could.
What did you have to do with it?
[ The Soviet Union might have been ended in 1950. Just a thought. ]
That would have happened had Douglas MacAurthur ran for president in 1948...
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Nothing, but my speel check mehsted it uhp....
Just finished the third volume of the war that came early.
Our cousin was on a troop ship; headed for an invasion of
Japan - an American ship. Their CO lined them up & said,
“Look to your right, then to your left. After this invasion,
one out of every three or you will be dead. - On their way
over, Truman dropped the A-bomb. Their ship turned around
mid-way & returned home. Every Japanese citizen was ordered
to fight to the death to defend Japan with anything they
could use for a weapon. - My father was a hardened combat
veteran of N. Africa, Italy & Germany. If not for the bomb;
he would have had to go to Japan & fight them. He was in
for the duration plus 6 months. I wasn’t born ‘til after
the war. - I do not second guess President Truman.
The Japanese should be thanking America for nuking their asses and bringing them to the modern era.
They Saw how a Brokered Peace turned out, an Armistice for 20 years.
That is why they had such insistence on Total and Unconditional surrender on the part of Germany and Japan. They didn't want their sons fighting the same war in 1960.
And I think they did a pretty good job. Germany hasn't started a World War in 70 years!
*Correction: That should read “TWO out of every three of
you will be dead.”
OK, that explains it....sorry.
[ The Japanese should be thanking America for nuking their asses and bringing them to the modern era. ]
Well, Perry showed up in middle 1800’s and brought them out of the medieval age into the Industrial Age, but it took two very bright flashes of light to “enlighten them”.
I read the book “The Making Of The Atomic Bomb” and General Gates, who was in charge of the Manhattan Project said that after all that money and resources and material used the Bomb had to be dropped. Also the powers that be were convinced that Japan would surrender real quick after Hiroshima but it took the second one to convince them that we had more. The firebombing campaign obliterated something like 59 cities and there wasn’t very many to choose from to be Atom Bombed (as the book stated) that were intact so they could measure the destruction. To me, and the generation that fought thought that bombing Nagasaki was vengeance because that’s where the torpedo’s used at Pearl Harbor were manufactured. Karma is a real biatch. The liberals today didn’t live through that era and don’t know squat on how Americans felt during the war or their feelings towards the Japanese.
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Well.... It IS a VANITY thread after all :P
Perhaps a dozen or so flashes across the middle east should enlighten the whole area.
Oh and PS, one of the reasons MacArthur was fired as commander in Korea was he wanted to use the atomic bomb.
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