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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 582961" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The only difference between a-bombs and conventional incindiery raids is the number of aircraft that are required to achieve the same level of destruction.</p><p> </p><p>In many respects, Japan reaped what it sowed; they carried out similar bombing raids on the Chinese city of Nanking in 1939.</p><p> </p><p>Over <em>20 million </em>Chinese died during the Japanese conquest of their country between 1936 and 1945. This was <em>3 times</em> the number of deaths that occured in the Holocaust.</p><p> </p><p>Ask yourself this; if the Japanese had posessed B-29 bombers and/or a working nuclear weapon in 1945, would they have used them? Absolutely.</p><p> </p><p>They had an operational plan in place to construct radiocative "dirty bombs" using Uranium-235 that was being shipped from Germany via submarine. These bombs would have been used on American cites on the west coast, dropped from submarine-launched aircraft. The only reason this plan was not carried out was because the German U-boat (u-232)that carried this uranium never made it to Japan; it departed Germany on April 20th 1945 and was in the mid-Atlantic on May 7th when Germany surrendered. The two Japanese officers that were on board committed suicide, and the captain of the U-boat took his ship to the U.S.A where he surrendered it and its cargo; in addition to the uranium, this U-boat contained plans and parts for V-1 and V-2 missiles and a complete, disassembled ME 262 jet fighter.</p><p> </p><p>I am not advocating indiscriminate air attacks against civilian population centers; but this was a tactic that the Japanese had used themselves, and the refusal of the Japanese govt to surrender long after there was no hope of victory is what caused the war to drag on and for so many civilians to be killed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 582961, member: 14668"] The only difference between a-bombs and conventional incindiery raids is the number of aircraft that are required to achieve the same level of destruction. In many respects, Japan reaped what it sowed; they carried out similar bombing raids on the Chinese city of Nanking in 1939. Over [I]20 million [/I]Chinese died during the Japanese conquest of their country between 1936 and 1945. This was [I]3 times[/I] the number of deaths that occured in the Holocaust. Ask yourself this; if the Japanese had posessed B-29 bombers and/or a working nuclear weapon in 1945, would they have used them? Absolutely. They had an operational plan in place to construct radiocative "dirty bombs" using Uranium-235 that was being shipped from Germany via submarine. These bombs would have been used on American cites on the west coast, dropped from submarine-launched aircraft. The only reason this plan was not carried out was because the German U-boat (u-232)that carried this uranium never made it to Japan; it departed Germany on April 20th 1945 and was in the mid-Atlantic on May 7th when Germany surrendered. The two Japanese officers that were on board committed suicide, and the captain of the U-boat took his ship to the U.S.A where he surrendered it and its cargo; in addition to the uranium, this U-boat contained plans and parts for V-1 and V-2 missiles and a complete, disassembled ME 262 jet fighter. I am not advocating indiscriminate air attacks against civilian population centers; but this was a tactic that the Japanese had used themselves, and the refusal of the Japanese govt to surrender long after there was no hope of victory is what caused the war to drag on and for so many civilians to be killed. [/QUOTE]
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