what if little boy had accidentally gone of on Tinian?

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a short while before the Enola Gay's "mission" a plane blew up on the run way at the american air base on Tinian, this motivated the them to not arm the atomic bomb (that went on to destroy Hiroshima) until it was in the air encase something similar happened when the Enola Gay was taking of
what if that plane hadn't blown up and hadn't motivated them to not arm the bomb, then a few days latter the Enola Gay in stead court fire taking off and the bomb went of and destroyed all the planes on the Tinian base?
 
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Then either Hiroshima or Kokura would have caught it a few weeks later starting from another island, while the public would hear of a catastrophic explosion in an ammunition dump.
This presupposes that the gun-type device used in the little boy really goes off - contrary to implosion design of the Fat Man it is not physically impossible, just very improbable. More probable would be a fizzle which except for radioactivity would not look much different than a bomber with full complement of ordnance exploding.
 

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a short while before the Enola Gay's "mission" a plane blew up on the run way at the american air base on Tinian, this motivated the them to not arm the atomic bomb (that went on to destroy Hiroshima) until it was in the air encase something similar happened when the Enola Gay was taking of
what if that plane hadn't blown up and hadn't motivated them to not arm the bomb, then a few days latter the Enola Gay in stead court fire taking off and the bomb went of and destroyed all the planes on the Tinian base?

Well, one thing is for sure, japanese leadership would have a expression like this:

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The Americans lose their biggest airbase of the war, the shock and anger over that might lead to a cancellation of the bomb program.
 
The Americans lose their biggest airbase of the war, the shock and anger over that might lead to a cancellation of the bomb program.

Probably not, there is still the backup field at Okinawa from which an attack using Fat Man could be launched, though loosing Tinian will still hurt like hell and generate a lot of outrage. Despite this Trinity has already succeeded and the US has already spent billions and has another bomb ready. The bomb program will not be cancelled and Japan is still going to catch hell within a month.
 
This sounds familiar for some reason... oh wait, I know why:

"... they had no backup plan!!1!eleven!!one!"
 
An odd coincidence

Well, one thing is for certain....you butterfly away both my wife and I. Both of our fathers were on Tinian, and both were involved with the bomb and the Enola Gay. Strange that neither my wife or I knew anything about this until we were engaged (in the 80s) and our families (both fathers were dead by this time) compared notes.

Just a strange coincidence...
 
Probably not, there is still the backup field at Okinawa from which an attack using Fat Man could be launched, though loosing Tinian will still hurt like hell and generate a lot of outrage. Despite this Trinity has already succeeded and the US has already spent billions and has another bomb ready. The bomb program will not be cancelled and Japan is still going to catch hell within a month.

It's not very likely, however I suspect the atomic bombing of Japan will be at least paused to discover what went wrong and if Fat Man and other bombs are safe. It's also going to be hard to explain this away as an ammunition explosion considering the scale of damage and the people in Saipan becoming very, very sick. If the US drops a bomb on Japan a few weeks later that has a similar effect then there'll be outrage once people realise that the US just murdered 40,000 citizens and destroyed it's biggest airbase by accident, there maybe a pause just for this reason.
 
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The blockade of the Home Islands and eventual invasion of Japan is "no backup plan"? :rolleyes:

He's referencing Eleven11, who posted a thread about WI the Hiroshima bomb failed to go off, and the Japanese recovered it and used it against the US. This turned out to be a lead-in to a bizarre conspiracy theory that there was no such thing as nuclear power, which was actually some sort of plot by the Jews.

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He's referencing Eleven11, who posted a thread about WI the Hiroshima bomb failed to go off, and the Japanese recovered it and used it against the US. This turned out to be a lead-in to a bizarre conspiracy theory that there was no such thing as nuclear power, which was actually some sort of plot by the Jews.
Speak of the devil (or Troll in this case), I was just checking out the wiki article on him. I also forgot to take the blockade into account during my earlier post. That will get tightened
 
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