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You do realize that USA and USSR were allies at the time? And takeover of Eastern Europe was agreed upon at Yalta conference. I would love to see Truman try to explain to American public why he decided to incinerate the allies, that American propaganda had been lionizing for the last four years...

But it would remove the taboo of nuclear weapons usage, so once the USSR had nukes it would be encouraged to use them to show parity with USA, which most likely means several nukes on Israel in 1967 or 1973.

And then in 1967 USSR nukes Israel and in 1979 Pakistan, as USA makes nuclear holocaust a normal military tactic.

Invasion of China would have been a blunder of biblical proportions, USA barely scraped together enough forces for war in Korea and China only used fraction of it's force, while break with USSR is yet to happen, so China would be well supplied. USA simply wasn't ready for WWII level of...