but his theory points to the fact that Oppenheimer had seen the firsthand effects of radiative poisoning and had decided to never let this cat out of the bag.
I'm probably mistaken here, but weren't they planning to sign a treaty actually banning the future development of all nuclear weapons to stop all information on their existence getting out to eager third parties, or am I just being too idealist here? But I suppose once they started the tests they decided it wasn't going to work.
When one person wants a bomb, another wants a bomb. They would have probably preferred to keep things under wraps.
Problem is the Explosion itself was enuff to let everyone knew that it was possible.
True it took till the late 70's for a second Bomb to be built, but the advances in Technology, meant that it cost only 250,000 man Years instead of the 750 ~800,000 man years the US had invested at the time of the Explosion.
No, I don't think that Roosevelt would have used the Bombs in the war even if they were available before the war ended.
Nukes have never been used in war outside of tests, so I see no reason for this fact not to reflect in TTL.
I tend to disagree, while the delay due to the Novembre Hurricane in Okinawa, lead to the Allies losing only 50,000 men when they invaded Tokyo Bay in Operation Coronet. Instead of Kyushu in Operation Olympic
But with out that delay their estimates were for 120~200,000 causalities.
I believe that if whe had used the Bomb and forced a surrender in Octobre 1945, whe would not have had the American Holocaust, with 15~20 million [There never has been a finally tally] Japanese killed in the Fire bombing and by Starving.
Those pictures of Starving Children in the Refugee camps will haunt the US for Generations to Come.