August 9th - Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
Much is said about whether the first bomb on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki should have been dropped.
The full invasion of Japan has set the numbers of casualties on both sides of up to 10,000,000 (guesstimate). These numbers reflect the refusal of Japan to surrender on their home island. What were the numbers if they had to "fight to the death" in China and the rest of the islands and countries they still occupied before August 14th 1945.?
It is interesting to note the chemical weapons that were in China at the surrender.
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Japan estimates its forces abandoned more than 700,000 chemical weapons in China during the war, although Chinese experts say as many as two million exist -- the world's largest stockpile of abandoned chemical arms.
Japan will spend more than 200 billion yen (1.9 billion dollars) building a chemical weapons disposal center in China to process Japanese weapons left there after World War II. |
Jeremy Goldkorn (last update: June 6, 05)
Would the Japanese have used those weapons? I think so.............