Scenarios about 'atomic bombings'
The use of nuclear weapons against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, marking the only wartime deployment of atomic weapons in history. These devastating attacks, which killed approximately 200,000 people through immediate blast effects and radiation poisoning, hastened Japan's surrender in World War II and ushered in the nuclear age, fundamentally altering geopolitics and military strategy.
What If Japan Never Surrendered in World War II?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Imperial Japan refused to surrender in 1945, triggering Operation Downfall, the Allied invasion of the Japanese Home Islands, and reshaping the post-war global order.