You should also know that we had NO more bombs to drop.
"You should also know that we had NO more bombs to drop"
Lots of people here going out of their way to make a fool of Patton - he asked for two bombs to get rid of the Russians and prevent the Genocide of 60 million and guess what - we had them!
"Chuck Hansen's great book U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History doesn't explicitly go into this question, but it does note that at the end of 1945 the U.S. owned a total of two atomic bombs, both Fat Man plutonium bombs. (This design became the standard U.S. nuclear weapon until into the 1950s.) He also notes that the weapons were short-lived, so it is possible that a) there were more than two bombs in the inventory when the war ended and even that b) the bombs on hand on December 31 had been assembled after August 15. "