What would history be like if the technology behind the Nuclear/The Atom Bomb weapons had never been discovered?
What would history be like if the technology behind the Nuclear/The Atom Bomb weapons had never been discovered?
Uh, Hiroshima & Nagasaki are levelled by incendiaries, like some dozen other towns and cities prior to The Big Two...
Then USAF just keep on bombing until there's nothing standing outside the Imperial Palace.
Then USN subs interdict food shipments until Japan starves...
It may end up like North Korea, living on a shoe-string and perpetually at war with Allied forces on outlying islands...
Without nukes, you don't get ICBMs, but you do get a lot more emphasis on bombers, escort & interceptor fighters and anti-aircraft missiles..
For precision bombing, you have Dambusters' Tallboy ground-penetrating 'earthquake' bombs. For area clearance, FAE and sub-munitions.
There'll be much bigger standing armies in Western Europe, with emphasis on tank / anti-tank warfare...
Mind you, countries can afford suchwithout military nuclear programs, Polaris subs etc etc...
Nah, they surrender after RKKA rolls over Kuantung army swamping Korea and China in the process.Uh, Hiroshima & Nagasaki are levelled by incendiaries, like some dozen other towns and cities prior to The Big Two...
Then USAF just keep on bombing until there's nothing standing outside the Imperial Palace.
Then USN subs interdict food shipments until Japan starves...
It may end up like North Korea, living on a shoe-string and perpetually at war with Allied forces on outlying islands...
?Why are people so convinced that Russia would violate the Tehran Conference divisions of territory.?In the aftermath, there's a Japanese SSR due to the Soviet landing as well.
Japan is firebombed and starved into submission. In the aftermath, there's a Japanese SSR due to the Soviet landing as well. South Korea is occupied by the Red Army. China falls early.
Poison gas is stockpiled in preparation for the Inevitable War.
The space program is delayed a long time, as the OTL driver for it (ICBM carrying a nuke) is gone.
The Marines hit the beach on the Japnaise main land. Several of us are butterflied out of existance as our grandfathers were killed during the fightimg in Japan.
The space program is delayed a long time, as the OTL driver for it (ICBM carrying a nuke) is gone.
Stalin wasn't the most trustworthy, even if he saw Greece, Italy, and France as Anglo-American prizes on par with Romania, Bulgaria, and the like. Still, he was getting fairly crazy late in life. Hence why people believe he was poisoned, with his Doctor's Plot having been to spark a war with the West.?Why are people so convinced that Russia would violate the Tehran Conference divisions of territory.?
The implications of that in itself are huge. Without the need to develop nuclear capable rockets then the launching of the first communications and weather satellites are delayed at least 10-15 years, ditto for Earth observation satellites, the robotic exploration of the planets, especially the outer solar system is similarly delayed as will all the missions studying the universe such as Hubble.
Overall a lot of current knowledge about the Earth and space wouldn't have been discovered by now and moon landings would still be science fiction.
I think one effect would be people using the Search Function.
Because he acted in bad faith on that very front, not to mention Eastern Europe. After the war, he sent letters to Truman saying Japan should be divvied up like Germany between occupying Allies. Given his record of breaking agreements to communize turf under his armies' control, Truman denied the request.Why are people so convinced that Russia would violate the Tehran Conference divisions of territory.