Notes on a new idea:
August 6, 1945: We drop the bomb. The big one.
August 8, 1945: San Francisco is instantly consumed by a firestorm surpassing the magnitude of Dresden and Hiroshima combined reducing the skyline to fractured skeletal silhouettes of urban infrastructure and people to ashes in the wind.
August 9, 1945: We drop the last bomb we got.
August 11, 1945: Los Angeles is decimated. 1.2 million dead.
August 13, 1945: Japan announces that it will bomb New York City next unless the U.S. surrenders. Truman announces to America that he refuses to be bullied.
August 15, 1945: An atomic bomb is detonated above Times Square. America falls silent in mourning.
August 16, 1945: Japan announces that there will be no more warnings. It will receive a surrender or cut off the head.
August 16, 1945: In a national radio address Truman announces that it is “an awful responsibility that has come to us, to surrender to the Japanese.” He asks every American family to “pray to God to guide us through this time.” and to “lead us towards his purposes.”
August 19, 1945: Truman signs an unconditional surrender.
August 21, 1945: Japan announces that the United States of America is now the United Nipponese Colonies of America.
August 23, 1945: Akira Otomo is installed as the new Daimyo of the UNCA, a position directly above the President with absolute power over the territory. While allowing the UNCA to function as it had been for the most part, Akira now imposes his will into law as he sees fit providing unlimited oversight to all matters of colonial conducts.
Nov 8, 1945: Bill Geralds returns home from the European Theater to find the country he helped win half the war for no longer exists.
August 8, 1945: San Francisco is instantly consumed by a firestorm surpassing the magnitude of Dresden and Hiroshima combined reducing the skyline to fractured skeletal silhouettes of urban infrastructure and people to ashes in the wind.
August 9, 1945: We drop the last bomb we got.
August 11, 1945: Los Angeles is decimated. 1.2 million dead.
August 13, 1945: Japan announces that it will bomb New York City next unless the U.S. surrenders. Truman announces to America that he refuses to be bullied.
August 15, 1945: An atomic bomb is detonated above Times Square. America falls silent in mourning.
August 16, 1945: Japan announces that there will be no more warnings. It will receive a surrender or cut off the head.
August 16, 1945: In a national radio address Truman announces that it is “an awful responsibility that has come to us, to surrender to the Japanese.” He asks every American family to “pray to God to guide us through this time.” and to “lead us towards his purposes.”
August 19, 1945: Truman signs an unconditional surrender.
August 21, 1945: Japan announces that the United States of America is now the United Nipponese Colonies of America.
August 23, 1945: Akira Otomo is installed as the new Daimyo of the UNCA, a position directly above the President with absolute power over the territory. While allowing the UNCA to function as it had been for the most part, Akira now imposes his will into law as he sees fit providing unlimited oversight to all matters of colonial conducts.
Nov 8, 1945: Bill Geralds returns home from the European Theater to find the country he helped win half the war for no longer exists.