If the atomic bomb had been delayed even a few more months, the war would have been over.
Very possibly not; Operation Olympic, the invasion of the smaller main island of Kyushu, was in every mind but McCarther's on hold due to massive reinforcements and an (underestimated) huge number of kamikazes available. Those who knew about the bomb were planning on using a number of them for that invasion if the initial 2-3 demonstrations of it failed, those who didn't were planning on using chemical weapons (I think in general, but maybe for or also for Olympic). So what would have happened if the war dragged on to it's scheduled October 1945 date? We can't know.
But the rest that you say, yeah. Bohr didn't think the project was feasible without turning a nation into a factory, and upon coming here, noted that was indeed what we did.
Very possibly not; Operation Olympic, the invasion of the smaller main island of Kyushu, was in every mind but McCarther's on hold due to massive reinforcements and an (underestimated) huge number of kamikazes available. Those who knew about the bomb were planning on using a number of them for that invasion if the initial 2-3 demonstrations of it failed, those who didn't were planning on using chemical weapons (I think in general, but maybe for or also for Olympic). So what would have happened if the war dragged on to it's scheduled October 1945 date? We can't know.
But the rest that you say, yeah. Bohr didn't think the project was feasible without turning a nation into a factory, and upon coming here, noted that was indeed what we did.