Today on
Far Future Horizons we mark the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
by taking another foray through an Alternate History of the Second World War
with “X-Day: The Plan to Invade Japan”.
Let us suppose that the Trinity Test at Alamogordo, New Mexico had gone very badly and the Manhattan project, that involved the efforts of 130,000 people and cost nearly US$ 2 billion ($ 22 billion in present day value), rather than detonating the world’s first atomic bomb, had in fact produce a dud.
