If US Never Dropped Atomic Bombs

The atomic bombs put an end to World War 2 in a dramatic fashion, but how would things have played out if those 2 nuclear bombs were never dropped on Japan? Check out today's epic new video to see an alternate version of how things would have played out during WWII if things didn't go nuclear!

Correction:
1:55 The correct names are Fat Man and Little Boy

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[TheInfographicsShow]

Correction:
1:55 The correct names are Fat Man and Little Boy

[Nipplator]

As a veteran I don't know if I believe it's possible to die a glorious death in combat. I know you can die a honorable death at the best, but mostly the ways soldiers die seem insignificant, unexpected, grotesque, inspirational, pointless, or (command staff favorite justification) necessary. Personally though, I find every combat death heartbreaking, and pray they are all quick.
Torment and suffering shouldn't be any part of giving everything for your country. You also lose a piece of yourself helplessly trying to comfort a man begging for their mom to stop the pain or bargaining with God to see their kids just one more time, nor does the surreal heat of their blood fade.

[Nipplator]

"Justice and Retribution came as two bombs named..."
Imagine how much differently the context of the bombing would feel if the bombs would have been named Justice and Retribution, instead of the more obscure (and kind of ironic being American) Fat Man and Little Boy.

[kevinsnotonsocialmedia]

It’s absolutely insane how difficult fighting the Japanese soldiers must have been. My grandfather was a Marine in the Pacific and fought at Guadalcanal. He said he thought he was going to die every single night.

[potterj]

Being Australian I shudder to consider that we would have been directly invaded if Japan had carried on in the pacific theatre. People call us a lapdog to America but any Australian who knows history should respect the fact that it wasn't just those 2 bombs that stopped a brutal onslaught to our small population but the American pacific forces who went through unthinkable horrors for the allies of a free democratic world. Not a fan of American politics as it is, but on the few occasions I've met a Marine, GI or airman who happened to be here I've bought them a drink or two :)

[pahtar]

To give you a sense of what the US expected in 1945 - Every Purple Heart awarded from late 1945 through Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Granada, the Gulf War, No Fly Zone enforcement, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Yemen, the Iraq War, piracy patrols off Africa, Libyan Civil War, Iraq (again), and Syria was manufactured in 1945 for the invasion of Japan. And we still have over 100, 000 remaining.

[Ensign_Nemo]

On August 13, 1945, just two days before the surrender, the army brass asked the Manhattan Project how often they could make a new atomic bomb during the next several months. The answer was a chilling one: "Every ten days." Seven more A-bombs would have been ready by November 1, 1945, the day that Kyushu was scheduled to be invaded. Perhaps two dozen in total would have been used by March 1, 1946, the day that Honshu was scheduled to be invaded. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust."

[dr.veronica]

We also have to wonder whether the dropping of these two relatively weak atomic bombs, and the truly nightmarish results of them, played a part in preventing nuclear war between other nations later, since they had a real world example of just how terrible these weapons are. It'd be a lot easier to order their use if you didn't have records of what it did to people.

[wc]

My grandfather was in the pacific and fought the Japanese on numerous islands. He said they fought to the last human and that children as young as 5-6 were trained to run up to US infantryman with grenades and blow them up. He said there was no other way unless we were willing to lose a million men.

[quick-and-easy]

My father was in the Sixth Army our of California which was scheduled for Operation Olympic, my father in law was a BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle, a light machine gun) and both celebrated when the bomb was dropped as they knew they now would live. My father in law, Kemper, was 23. He grew up in Virginia on Walton's Mountain with John Boy. The Bomb was terrible but necessary for both sides to stop the carnage.

[rinzo]

This episode was super deep, especially when the narrator said "Humans had to create cataclysmic weapons to protect them from themselves".
That just brought back the wise saying of Mastermold (the Sentinel father) when he was queried by his inventor Dr. Trask.
TRASK : Why are you doing this? You were designed to protect people from mutants.
MASTERMOLD : THAT'S ILLOGICAL! MUTANTS ARE HUMANS! Therefore I will protect humans from themselves. And I will bring peace to the world.

[crystalian]

Anime would cease to exist (This is a joke :P)

[texasblueboy]

My dad joined the US Marines the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was in the Pacific his whole time, many friends dad`s were in the Pacific too. Dad was part of the troops that would have been tasked with the invasion of Japan. He eventually moved POW's around Japan as his last assignment.

[dr.veronica]

"Here's how the humans destroyed millions of precious eggs for an omelet they never wanted."

Well, if there's a single sentence to describe war as a whole, I think that's it.

[danielhoesing]

Appreciate the complete rundown of the situation at the time. There is so much rewritten history. It’s dangerous! Well done.

[martin]

On Saipan, where the largest Banzai charge of the war took place, the civilians who did not fight ended up throwing their babies over the side of Marpi Point, and then themselves right after. It's now called Suicide Cliff, and a US National Historic Site. If the Japanese of a small colony could do that, imagine what they would have done if it came to invasion.

[rexbentley]

Then there is the story of Mr. Yamaguchi. He was in Hiroshima on that morning and survived the attack, he decided to go back home to Nagasaki where it would be safe. He survived that one too and eventually died of old age. Apparently the A bomb wasn't as bad as we've been led to believe, or his number just wasn't up on those days.

[Seanmmvi]

This was an incredible video... Like... One of the best pieces of 'motion pictures' I have ever seen, in any form.

[stephenlarson]

I had a friend who worked as a civilian in Japanese Naval Intelligence in Tokyo. She told me that when word of the bombing of Hiroshima reached them, they stood up and cheered. The naval officers in charge came out and threatened them, and ordered them to sit down and get back to work, which they did.

[jubjub]

Kamikazes DID NOT almost always hit their targets. Quite the opposite. Most crashed into the sea or were cut down by the ships AA flak. The use of Kamikazes was trivial in slowing the progress of the Allie’s advances. They had psychological effects, but that’s all.