On This Day: Carrier of the bomb sunk

[Jimbuna]

Not trying to de-escalate what happened in reality :nope: But what might have been the consequence if she had been sunk before discharging her deadly cargo ? :hmm:

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=23&id=14422

[bradclark1]

Then Operation Olympic and Operation Coronet would have gone off with an estimated 1,200,000 casualties, with 267,000 fatalities if the invasion took 90 days.
To me I think using the bomb was the right thing to do thereby saving all those Allied casualties.

Imagine what that submerine crew felt when they found out that that ship they fired 6 fish at and missed was carrying the bomb.

[Jimbuna]

Yeah :yep: ....a lot of food for thought there :hmm:

[August]

But what might have been the consequence if she had been sunk before discharging her deadly cargo ?

I think they would just have used the Nagasaki bomb on Hiroshima and they expected to have another atomic bomb ready for use in the third week of August, with three more in September and a further three in October.

[joea]

Well there was another bomb wasn't there? Plus at least one or two more IIRC. So at least one would have been dropped, I don't see why losing one would have stopped the other.

[bookworm_020]

Then Operation Olympic and Operation Coronet would have gone off with an estimated 1,200,000 casualties, with 267,000 fatalities if the invasion took 90 days.
To me I think using the bomb was the right thing to do thereby saving all those Allied casualties.
Plus an expected 3,000,000 japanese casualties. Makes the numbers that died due to the atomic bombs seem small, more died in the firebombing of Tokyo.

[SUBMAN1]

Hmm. Don't tell me I need to get out my collection of shark week videos on this one?

-S

PS. Just looked - it's about 1.5 hours on this subject. I think I could compress that at 320x240 with 128 kb MP3 to half a GB.

[Jimbuna]

Hmm. Don't tell me I need to get out my collection of shark week videos on this one?

-S

PS. Just looked - it's about 1.5 hours on this subject. I think I could compress that at 320x240 with 128 kb MP3 to half a GB.

Go for it :up:

[Sailor Steve]

There was an okay TV movie about it some time ago:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102455/

[Andyman23]

Then Operation Olympic and Operation Coronet would have gone off with an estimated 1,200,000 casualties, with 267,000 fatalities if the invasion took 90 days.
To me I think using the bomb was the right thing to do thereby saving all those Allied casualties.

Imagine what that submerine crew felt when they found out that that ship they fired 6 fish at and missed was carrying the bomb.

i agree :yep: