10 points for any PoD after 1936
5 points for any PoD after 1900.
5 points for any PoD after 1900.
10 points for any PoD after 1936
5 points for any PoD after 1900.
First, prevent Hiroshima and Nagasaki by either:
1) An accident at Oak Ridge sets Uranium production back a few months; all work is focused on the Plutonium implosion bomb; the rush means someone makes a mistake with the Trinity device; the program is delayed for another few months while they figure out what is going on.
Or
2) Truman simply decides in 1945 not to authorise use of atomic weapons.
Assume then a US invasion of Japan, and history proceeds otherwise as OTL, up until 1950, when the USSR detonates a nuke over Seoul...
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If the US invaded Japan, you may assume history would have been VERY different than IOTL.
The invasion of Kyushu was scheduled for November 1st, 1945, and the invasion of Honshu was scheduled for March 1946.
Honshu would probably have seen a million Allied casualties alone, as the Japanese correctly guessed where the American forces would have landed, and deployed to those places far more men than Allied planners thought possible; to say nothing of the extremely expansive defense network. And then there would have been the fighting inland, and the Japanese weren't going to go down without a fight.