User blog comment:Saturn120/What if Operation Unthinkable Was Executed?/@comment-32656-20140429223912/@comment-4621372-20140430222055

Nukes? The Americans had nukes.

See, if the Sovs attacked before the fall of Japan, as you said then the allies have two nukes. Wouldn't it make sense to use them on Soviet cities?

Also, the Americans got more nukes not long after. With Stalingrad, Leningrad, Smolensk, and Moscow in ruins, and entire armies of Russian troops laid to waste, I doubt the Soviets would do anything except fall apart.