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thomblake comments on Thomas C. Schelling's "Strategy of Conflict" - Less Wrong
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As a practical matter, this would not have been possible. At the end of World War II, the U.S. didn't have enough nuclear weapons to do much more than threaten to blow up a city or two. Furthermore, intercontinental ballistic missiles didn't exist yet; the only way to get a nuclear bomb to its target was to put it in an airplane and hope the airplane doesn't get shot down before it gets to its destination.
But at the end of the war, the US had developed cybernetic anti-aircraft guns to fight the Pacific War, but the Russians did not have them. They had little chance of shooting down our planes using manual sighting.
I think you should be aware that lesswrong is read in countries other than the USA, and writing about "our planes" in a forum where not everyone is American to mean "American planes" can lead to misunderstandings or can discourage others from taking part in the conversation.