Cool story, but that site. Holy shit.

The absolute state of webdesign in 2024.

Yes, the article mentions the manufacturing bottleneck.

It’s insane that after seeing the effects of the first 2 bombs, military leaders still lobbied for more to be dropped.

And if Japan hadn’t surrendered, it would have been used up to a dozen times.

The third bomb, and the others that may have followed, were a definitive part of the American strategy to end World War II. Although hopeful that nuclear weapons might end the war, American officials—from President Truman to his commanding officers—did not expect the war to end right away. Signs indicated that more atomic weapons were necessary, and U.S. leaders were rapidly moving to order more atomic strikes. Had the war continued, more atomic bombs would very likely have been used.