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http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/franck.html

If you don't want to read the whole thing, the gist of it is that scientists had predicted that bombing Japan without warning would start the nuclear arms race in 1945. How do you think the world would've changed had we listened to them?

I can see Russia being a bit more aggressive in Europe due to there being no reason to fear America's bombers also the north of Japan would be red and Stalin would of been less bothered with nukes

Also Eisenhower would have been in command of Korean operations if:

1) there was no massive felling about using nukes against China

2) Eisenhower wouldn’t of used nukes fearing it would cause an arms race

there is no way to tell what would have happend if we would have listend to them. we would want to say that everything would have turned out better if we hadnt bomed them, that everything would have been resolved by a peace treaty or something. but we have no clue. at that point in time it seemed like the logical choice to make, and im sure if we were to go back in time no one would do anything differently. i wish so many people hadnt died but how could it have been any other way???

there is no way to tell what would have happend if we would have listend to them. we would want to say that everything would have turned out better if we hadnt bomed them, that everything would have been resolved by a peace treaty or something. but we have no clue. at that point in time it seemed like the logical choice to make, and im sure if we were to go back in time no one would do anything differently. i wish so many people hadnt died but how could it have been any other way???

Did you actually read the article? That's how. And the report doesn't give up the possibility that Japan could be bombed, but it tries to plan it so that there would be no arms race.

Did you actually read the article? That's how. And the report doesn't give up the possibility that Japan could be bombed, but it tries to plan it so that there would be no arms race.
no i didn't read the article sorry

http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/franck.html

If you don't want to read the whole thing, the gist of it is that scientists had predicted that bombing Japan without warning would start the nuclear arms race in 1945. How do you think the world would've changed had we listened to them?The Americans would have tried to get a better head start than they had. That's basically what would have happened.

The Americans would have tried to get a better head start than they had. That's basically what would have happened.
A pessimistic but probably true view. I'm thinking about what would have happened had they actually followed the concepts in the report, though. The arms race might have been avoided altogether.