5 million dead and 25 cities gassed.

[Bally002]

Over the years we have been exposed to the revisionist history of how mean and terrible the atomic bombing of Japan was to end the war.

Well there were how many killed in the dropping of the two nuclear devices ? Not as many people died as you might suspect by dropping the first bomb (78,000 initially although many others would die from radiation poisoning; I have seen numbers as high as 140,000) and as far as Nagasaki the initial death toll was around 40,000 due to the city being in mountainous terrain.. Yes more died from radiation poisoning but America lost more dead and wounded taking Okinawa (50,000 dead a wounded) and that was just one small Island.

OK there were plans for the chemical warfare boys who had accumulated 144,000 tons of lethal gas to use the gas on 25 Japanese cities with a possible 5 million Japanese deaths because the Japanese were planning on fighting to the last man, woman and child; "suicide vest for all" kinda thing ! The USA figured they were justified in using the gas since Japan had used Chemical warfare agents on China.


Even after the first bomb was dropped there was no surrender so the second bomb was dropped. This made the Emperor decide to call the war off. He was planning on making a radio broadcast to tell the Japanese people the war was over yet even then there were some in the military who tried to do a coup and stop the broadcast.. Luckily the palace guard stopped them. When the Emperor said the war was over his words were god like law.

Yes  and they did have a 3rd bomb ready to go.  

The Brits even had a dedicated squadron of Lancasters.  The black squadron they called it and had plans to drop the initial bomb.

A lot of untold stories.

Cheers,

Bally:)