In article on Sat, 6 Mar 2010
08:13:41 -0500, tanada@peakoil.com (Allen W. McDonnell) wrote:
> "Richard Gadsden" wrote in message
> news:memo.20100306130008.3888A@tg001a0001.blueyonder.co.uk...
> > In article on Tue, 23
> > Feb 2010
> > 08:52:48 -0500, tanada@peakoil.com (Allen W. McDonnell) wrote:
> >
> >> AH ASB Challenge, shift any military force from any time two
> years
> >> to achieve maximum divergence from OTL. Mine is below, what is
> >> yours?
> >
> > Enola ..., August 8, 1945, one second before dropping Little Boy
> > to
> > August 8, 1947.
> >
> > Yes, to 47, not 43.
> >
>
> Well without Hiroshima the end of the war will be different. The
> USA did not want to drop a single bomb, they wanted to drop at
> least two close together to give the impression that we had a large
> supply. Therefore once they decide that the Enola ... was shot
> down before drop (the only conclusion they can reasonably reach)
> they will hold thew second bomb until the third is ready to be
> used. As I recall would have been no earlier than August 19th.
> Would Stalin have still invaded Manchuria when he did OTL without
> the prospect of the USA getting more territory because of the bomb?
> Would the Emporer have still been shocked into giving the surrender
> order if the two bombs had been used the 20th and 23rd instead of
> the 6th and 9th?
>
> IOW How do you see this scenario playing out, because going the
> other direction chages the circumstances from known OTL to unknown
> ATL.
I was thinking more about the effects of a second nuke on Hiroshima in
1947! New thinking required...
--
Richard Gadsden
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