Reply #101: The reason for that is... [View All]

.. from all the history on this I've studied so far...

They did not have enough HEU or Plutonium at the time to construct any more bombs. They did the trinity test with Plutonium, the Hiroshima bomb was a Unranium 235 fission bomb, and Nagasaki was a plutonium fusion bomb...

Even with the Y-12 facility going full steam and everything they were doing at Los Alamos, it would have been a long time before they had additional weaponized material...

I could be wrong, but has anyone heard the fact that the y-12 facility was, in it's heyday, using something like 25% of the total U.S. electrical power? It was a giant bank of calutrons with magents so powerful they pulled nails out of the walls.

So if they had called our bluff, it all would have been for naught...

We did have the two though, a reasonable argument could be made that we could have demonstrated it once, and if that didn't do the job we take out a city... It's a tough call for us who can't see through the eyes of the people who lived it.

-An