Is that true that the Manhattan project was actually intended to be used for German?

Question

Little Boy, Fat Man and Trinity bombs are actually planned to bomb Dresden, Ruhr and Berlin? not Hiroshima, Nagasaki or Kokura? Because German is more dangerous after it sucessfully made bomb in Heigerloch and named " ReichZornWaffe?

Answer 1

My father worked on the Manhattan Project (I still have the bronze lapel pin that he wore).

According to what he told me, it was a bit of a race with the Nazis to see who was going to develop the A bomb first; there were great hopes that it would not be necessary to drop the bomb on Germany, and the firebombing of Dresden was one of the tactics to force an end in Europe as quickly as possible and so avoid it.

Japan was another story. The respondent who said that Japan was already beaten needs a little remedial history. We bombed Hiroshima first, and then Nagasaki, but not Kokura; Kokura HAD been a target, but it was so overcast that day that the pilots had to divert their path to the number 2 target, which was Nagasaki.

Answer 2

It was the allies' stated intention, after the Yalta Conference, to deal with Germany first. Because of the timing of Germany's surrender and the first testing of a nuclear device, the A-bombs were re-targeted, so to speak, to Japan.

Answer 3

Well yes, Einstein suggested to FDR that the bomb be built as he had some pretty good reasons not to like Nazis. If you do a little research though, you will find out that the Japanese had an A-bomb program as well.

Answer 4

germany had surendered before they could get a chance to use them thus openening the door for Japan. They really didn't need to bomb Japan because Japan was already defeated.

Answer 5

Yes it was but Germany collapsed.

Answer 6

I think so, but since germany surrender and truman didn't want more U.S. soilders to die he nuked japan.

Answer 7

Eh, I've never heard that but it I wouldn't doubt that.