All right. Here's a thought. Bear with me because I'm going to get a tad freaky. Today we have tactical nukes. Nuclear weapons that can technically,
be used on the battlefield, and are AKA, battlefield nukes. What if the United
States, with the help of the Manhattan Project, had started using tactical nukes in 1945? For example, let's go back to Operation Downfall, for a minute. Shall we? Instead of developing nine more nuclear bombs for the
invasion of Kyushu, the United States develops a small warhead, "small" in 1945, being a relative term, for its sixteen inch shells. The battleships, including USS Texas, (BB-35), to use in the naval bombardment of Kyushu.
How would the Imperial Japanese Army deal with this new development?