If the Kyujo coup had succeeded and Japan had not surrendere

>>31924435

>what would have happened?
We drop some more atomic bombs.

>How long would total nuclear annihilation have taken?
A long time, since we didn't have enough bombs for that ready.

>Would the Soviets have captured any more of Japan than they did?
No, they had no logistical ability to launch an invasion of Japan.

Japanese people would be an endangered race.

WW2 was hard core. The Russians alone lost one out of every four citizens.

Every Japanese city would have been burned to the ground, every ship sunk and port blockaded, every railroad and highway destroyed, etc.

>>31924471
>No, they had no logistical ability to launch an invasion of Japan.
But they took over Sakhalin Island.

>>31924435
Operation Starvation would have continued.

Operation Coronet probably still would have happened on schedule, because the Army was so far along with it.

After that... a lot depends on the details of what happened in the next few months. It's very likely that there would have been very, very few Japanese survivors in the end, especially after they murdered all remaining POWs and a few million more civilians in occupied lands.

>>31924471
>We drop some more atomic bombs.
Did we even have more? I was under the impression that the two we used were it. It'd take months for us to build more, though in that time the Japs would be crippled economically and socially, dealing with the fallout (literally) of the bombs we used.

No matter what, the Jap spirit broke when those two bombs fell in August. There was no coming back, and we were knocking on their front door. If we couldn't get more bombs, we would be invading despite the costs. At that point, Japan would have been completely decimated from tip to tail, which is much costlier for them than for us.

>>31924513
They also decided against going further and trying to take Hokkaido since the amphibious portions of the invasion of Manchuria was where they started to hit some snags.

>>31924471
After the Trinity test, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki the US didn't have a lot of fissile material lying around. It took years to enrich the little bit that we had at that point.

Had the Kyujo coup worked, then the best strategy would be to surround Japan and starve them out until a) they surrender, or b) we enriched enough fissile material to irradiate the entire fucking island. Fuck trying to invade that place. If the Japs want to die so badly for their honor and their emperor, then let them.

>>31924596
We had plenty of napalm. Could we have bombed the rest of their cities to the ground?

>>31924596
>>31924574

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project#Bombings

>Groves expected to have another atomic bomb ready for use on 19 August, with three more in September and a further three in October.[289]

>>31924654
Post the whole thing
Groves expected to have another atomic bomb ready for use on 19 August, with three more in September and a further three in October.[289] Two more Fat Man assemblies were readied, and scheduled to leave Kirtland Field for Tinian on 11 and 14 August.

That's three bombs a month. Considering that Fat Man and Little Boy killed an average of 30,000 people each, then it would have taken over 2,750 bombs to kill every Jap. At three bombs a month that's a little over 76 years to defeat the Japanese if they refuse to surrender.

>>31924727

You want to go ahead and take a second look at the first post I made?

>>A long time, since we didn't have enough bombs for that ready.

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>>31924727
>76 years of continuous nuclear bombardment