Affects+on+World+War+II

Without the use of nuclear weapons the war in the pacific would not have came to a close as it did. The allies had already won the war in Europe and were now focusing on Japan. The invasion of Japan would have been inevitable unless conventional bombardments of Japan inflicted enough damage to convince Japan to surrender. Another factor that would have complicated the situation is the possibility of a soviet involvement. The soviets had agreed to aid the Americans defeat the Japanese, but the Japanese surrender after the nuclear weapons allowed the US to avoid needing the Soviets. Without the nuclear weapons the Soviets would most likely of had to aid in assaulting the Japanese. As it did in Germany this would lead to a potential division of Japan between the US and the USSR. The US would most likely not respond kindly to having to share Japan because the US had fought Japan largely on its own for the entirety of the war, with the soviets only stepping in at the end. The Americans would feel cheated and this would raise tensions between the two nations. Without the threat of nuclear war, the cold war would have never been "cold" and a new conflict would have most likely occurred along either the German or Japanese border of US and USSR territories. Without the development of nuclear weapons, the US would have no good way of persuading the Japanese to surrender as soon as they did, and the USSR would have eventually joined the war in the Pacific as an ally of the US (as stated in an earlier contract between the two nations).