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> Fortunately, the war stopped at "only" two atomic bombs, there were more to come... Not for a while, I think. We only had two bombs at the time. IIRC it woul

> Fortunately, the war stopped at "only" two atomic bombs, there were more to come... Not for a while, I think. We only had two bombs at the time. IIRC it would have taken months (weeks?) to build another. The implication that we could just keep dropping a bomb every three days until surrender was a bluff, albeit a very strong bluff.

zeroname 8y ago
> Not for a while, I think. We only had two bombs at the time. IIRC it would have taken months (weeks?) to build another. It wasn't that far off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#Plans_for_more_atomic_attacks_on_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...