Genghis77
09-24-2007, 01:29 AM
I have studied quite a bit about WWII in the waning days, mostly from the History Channel. Hitler was banking on some super weapons and with the Me-262 and other things, he was beginning to get them. But those were too little too late. The big danger was the nuclear bomb program or rather thermonuclear bomb program. Seemed his own scientists sabatoged it by saying they needed 150 kilos of plutonium when 16 or possibly as little as 8 would have done it.
Then there was Japan. A few days after Hiroshima, it seems that Japan detonated an atomic device in Korea. Said to have created a blast zone about 150 yds across, about half that of Trinity. Again a little too late and their air force or navy had no way to deliver. It makes you realize how close though. It should also end the whining about us bombing Hiroshima and Nagsasaki. It was definitely on their agenda to either use an atom bomb or poison gas on Los Angeles or San Francisco or both.
My unanswered question was who was the bigger idiot? Hitler or Tojo? Hitler was an idiot for attacking countries on two fronts (actually 3 when you add in the Africa campaign) and wasting resources by exterminating millions of people in the camps. Or Tojo who had visited the US and found it lacking a military attitude, underestimating American resources and industrial capacity and how the American people would rise up to retalliate.
A note: at the time of WWII the populations of Japan were not much different in size US about 150 million, Japan about 130 million. Germany was about 50 million.
Then there was Japan. A few days after Hiroshima, it seems that Japan detonated an atomic device in Korea. Said to have created a blast zone about 150 yds across, about half that of Trinity. Again a little too late and their air force or navy had no way to deliver. It makes you realize how close though. It should also end the whining about us bombing Hiroshima and Nagsasaki. It was definitely on their agenda to either use an atom bomb or poison gas on Los Angeles or San Francisco or both.
My unanswered question was who was the bigger idiot? Hitler or Tojo? Hitler was an idiot for attacking countries on two fronts (actually 3 when you add in the Africa campaign) and wasting resources by exterminating millions of people in the camps. Or Tojo who had visited the US and found it lacking a military attitude, underestimating American resources and industrial capacity and how the American people would rise up to retalliate.
A note: at the time of WWII the populations of Japan were not much different in size US about 150 million, Japan about 130 million. Germany was about 50 million.