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<blockquote data-quote="dicknixon72" data-source="post: 1496767" data-attributes="member: 7739">Halsey was also point-on about (((them))) wanting to try their toy. This was a live-subject experiment to test the effectiveness of two types of atomic weapons.Fact is waning resources in terms of men and material made many in the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy open to ending the conflict both before and after the atomic bombings. The atom bombs also didn't even grant us an unconditional surrender, which is another embellishment meant to justify the bombings. We allowed the Japanese to retain their Imperial dynasty and Hirohito was cast as slight, diminutive figurehead to the West even though he was extraordinarily complicit in the war from beginning to end and certainly involved in questionable Japanese action during the course of the war.Side note - I find it interesting that little is ever mentioned about the numerous Japanese plans for attacking the US mainland, both for strategic and later punitive reasons. Some know of the high-altitude balloon bombs that made it as far east as the Great Lakes and are aware of their incendiary cargo. Many do not know that the Japanese had thought of using these to release swarms of infected fleas carrying plague, cholera, smallpox, anthrax, etc. as bioweapons against the United States as they had validated their usage with extensive testing in Japanese-held Manchukuo (China) and the plan came very close to execution with the very, very late-war introduction of the super long-range I-400 aircraft carrier submarines and their Aichi Seiran bombers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dicknixon72, post: 1496767, member: 7739"] Halsey was also point-on about (((them))) wanting to try their toy. This was a live-subject experiment to test the effectiveness of two types of atomic weapons. Fact is waning resources in terms of men and material made many in the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy open to ending the conflict both before and [I]after[/I] the atomic bombings. The atom bombs also didn't even grant us an [I]unconditional[/I] surrender, which is another embellishment meant to justify the bombings. We allowed the Japanese to retain their Imperial dynasty and Hirohito was cast as slight, diminutive figurehead to the West even though he was extraordinarily complicit in the war from beginning to end and certainly involved in questionable Japanese action during the course of the war. Side note - I find it interesting that little is ever mentioned about the numerous Japanese plans for attacking the US mainland, both for strategic and later punitive reasons. Some know of the high-altitude balloon bombs that made it as far east as the Great Lakes and are aware of their incendiary cargo. Many do not know that the Japanese had thought of using these to release swarms of infected fleas carrying plague, cholera, smallpox, anthrax, etc. as bioweapons against the United States as they had validated their usage with extensive testing in Japanese-held Manchukuo (China) and the plan came very close to execution with the very, very late-war introduction of the super long-range I-400 aircraft carrier submarines and their Aichi [I]Seiran[/I] bombers. [/QUOTE]

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