"Evidence of Japan's 1945 Plan to Wage Biological Warfare" Topic
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Perun Gromovnik | 20 Aug 2021 5:55 a.m. PST |
"All research of the mycobacterium tuberculosis and Paratyphi B, which I personally conducted … were carried out to use them as weapons in the war against the Soviet Union, which, … was supposed to begin in June 1945," the declassified testimony read. link Does any one have links for those documents
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troopwo | 20 Aug 2021 7:19 a.m. PST |
I quite believe it. Their Unit 731 experiments conducted against specific races to determine what worked best at killing race XXX. I understand that it was the Russians that over an that facility,,, they would know. You can usually tell the effectiveness of their research and tests by the efforts that the allies put out in getting hold of the researchers and their records and the extant of helping them to escape the gallows. |
Frederick | 20 Aug 2021 7:35 a.m. PST |
Does not surprise me either – the Japanese were scared to death of the Soviet Union, notably after Khalkhin Gol; some of the Japanese brass thought that the Russians had used bioweapons at Khalkhin Gol as many Japanese casualties were due to dysentry (which was probably a comment on the poor quality of the Japanese military medical system) – there is a school of thought that the Japanese surrender was as much triggered by the Soviet declaration of war as by the atomic bombings |
The Virtual Armchair General | 20 Aug 2021 10:57 a.m. PST |
I understand that, despite the enormous economic privations Japan was suffering by 1945, they were within six months of having their own long range bomber that was intended to fly bubonic plague and other bio weapons against the US West Coast. Even without such a bomber (whose ability to make round trip flights was irrelevant by 1945 and the general use of Kamikaze tactics), bio weapons could still have been deployed via the same balloon delivery systems which were essentially useless for delivering bombs, but perfect for "bugs." All of which should be taken into consideration by those who argue that Japan could have been blockaded and starved into submission without either an invasion or use of atomic weapons. The Japanese Army couldn't give a tinker's cuss if the general population starved, so long as they remained in power and avoid surrender. In the months--years?--it would have taken to "starve" Japan, they would have had ample opportunity to strike back in ways that would make the use of nukes look positively sanitary. TVAG |
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