'' The Burning Mountain : A Novel of the Invasion of Japan '' , ( 1983 ) , is an alternate history depicting what could have happened if the United States and its allies had been forced to invade Japan in 1946 , had the Trinity test of the Fat Man nuclear design tested on July 16 , 1945 , failed . This is based on the Operation Coronet and Operation Olympic United States battle plans for the invasion of Japan , which were rendered moot by Japan 's surrender after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Trinity (nuclear test)
Alfred Coppel