They failed Misserably.

However, I often wonder what would have happened if we hadn't bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima in response to such tactics...Was Japan really on the brink of collapse or would the war in the Pacific have raged on killing even more people than those who died in the A-bomb drops...

And if we had kept the bomb secret for a little bit longer, would the cold war have ever gotten started? Would the Soviets have been able to develop a bomb of their own?

I think it's very possible that the Cold War is the only thing that enabled the Russians to keep the clamps on so tightly on the old Soviet Union... If the Russians didn't know that the Bomb existed, it would have been much harder for the Soviet leadership to keep control...They might not have developed a bomb of their own...And the US today would be the only nuclear power on Earth.

Of course other alternatives could have occured as well.

But then I digress.

Scott Evil