Atomic Bomb & political timing?

Question

May 7- Victory in Europe

July 16- Trinity atomic test

August 6- Hiroshima (Uranium Bomb)

August 9- Nagasaki (Plutonium Bomb)

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Given the speed of events between VE Day and the first atomic test; why wasn't an atomic bomb dropped on Germany? Also, please address the fact that the US had two completely different bomb designs ready to go 90 days after victory in Europe.

Answer 1

1) Japan was an island- europe was full of allied troops and allied citizens

2) The Japanese were superior soldiers and they shared the same sort of cult delusional ideas as present day islamic terrorists...they were not afraid to die to the last man

3) The american army was running out of manpower and funds to wage an invasion of Japan

4) Japan's military rule was essentially an end of the world type cult-> their leaders had no intention of living in a world where their culture was being diluted by the western values and modernisation. This is the very same threat the fundamentalist islamic priests fear today. Their back was to a wall and their psychology was willing to let their nation die rather than change....it took 2 atom bombs to convince them to surrender...2 ! Most nations would have surrendered after 1 city vanished off the face of the earth but 2 ?????This shows the level of madness their leaders had. And lets be clear...these type of leaders are mad. Its not political or freedom fighter stuff. They're mad. Honouring enemy soldiers by chopping off their heads. Running amuck in nanking holding decapitation competitions. Cop on ! Its the same with Alqueda nowadays- do you think if these people were in a western culture they wouldn't be on respiridone?

War is terrible but nearly always necessary. Imagine if Japan was merely isolated in 1945 and allowed to go on in the same way....would you like to be born there . The war freed the good people from their crazy leaders and its a good place to be born now. McArthur showed them kindness and built a good nation

Answer 2

Germany had the bomb, but the Sanger-Bredt Anti-Podal Bomber wasn't ready. Otherwise the bomb would've been dropped on New York.

Answer 3

At the Potsdam conference in July 1945 Stalin agered a date for entering the war against Japan..

That date was August 15.

Even though the Americans knew that the Japanese government was considering the possibility of surrender they realised that they would have to bring the war to a swift conclusion to prevent the Soviet Union occupying any Japanese territory so they used the bombs against civilian targets to shock the Japanese into capitulation.

As it was the Soviet Union managed to occupy the Kurile Islands in the north of Japan where they have been ever since.

Answer 4

The answer is evident in the data you presented.  By the time the bomb was found to work, the European war had been over for two months.  At V-E, it hadn't even been built.

Answer 5

germany had already surrendered when the atomic bomb was finallly finished. the plutonium was the only one tested because they only had enough uranium at the time for the one bomb that used it. and also the theory and actual design of atomic energy was developed by german scientists. if u have netflix u can watch the manhatten project on watch instantly in the documentary category.

Answer 6

The bomb was simply not available before Germany surrendered. That happened in May, the first test was in July.

The people who worked on the bomb were largely refugees from Hitler and would have been only too happy to see the bomb finished in time to drop it on Germany. It didn't happen.

The reason for the two bombs was that in the haste to develop the bomb parallel programs were pursued. Getting enough bomb-grade material was a big stumbling block, and so both U-235 and Pu were fabricated at Hanford, Oak Ridge, and to a lesser extent other places.