While I hesitate to add to the speculation, it's interesting in retrospect to think of how Japan might have used bases they seized at Attu and Adak, Alaska to h

While I hesitate to add to the speculation, it's interesting in retrospect to think of how Japan might have used bases they seized at Attu and Adak, Alaska to help with the problem of making strategic bombing of the U.S. west coast possible. Of course, that wasn't the reason the U.S. bothered to eject Japan from the Aleutian Islands in 1943, but if Japan had really been able to develop a bomb that would certainly be a useful defensive move.