"The Plot to Nuke Japan’s Fleet" Topic
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Tango01 | 14 Sep 2018 9:55 p.m. PST |
"Less than a year after the formal end of World War II the United States tested its new superweapons in peacetime. Operation Crossroads in 1946 at Bikini Atoll tested the effects of nuclear weapons on naval fleets and harbors. While burrowing through the vast Manhattan Project archives historian Alex Wellerstein turned up evidence that Bikini wasn't the first Pacific island in the atomic crosshairs. Another atoll may have been the earliest target considered by the Manhattan Project. For a time before the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States considered nuking the Japanese fleet at anchor — a kind of reverse, radioactive Pearl Harbor…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
John the OFM | 14 Sep 2018 9:58 p.m. PST |
Mmmmmm…. That might have had a better AA and fighter defense. |
Cacique Caribe | 15 Sep 2018 4:07 a.m. PST |
I agree. But I guess the people would have still refused to believe the real reason for why their fleet never made it home. The government would have kept the people going on with the war for much longer, bleeding themselves and everyone else dry in the process. Dan |
Panfilov | 15 Sep 2018 10:54 a.m. PST |
Old News. The real reason that target was not pursued, by August 1945 there was no longer an Imperial Japanese Navy worth targeting. |
Tango01 | 15 Sep 2018 11:28 a.m. PST |
John… (smile) Amicalement Armand
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