Japan: Two tactical nukes with a sidedish of Leftist whining

I never forgot that. So, the left is angrier about it than the people it actually happened to.

The war between Japan and America was over and done with decades ago. The internal war of sedition and treason being fought by the Left is still ongoing. Thus why the Left was angry and still is angry. They are still in a war. The Japanese surrendered. Did the Left and their Soviet masters ever surrender? Did they ever admit their inferiority in the Ultimate Test of a nation and its people?

I spent quite a bit of time studying Japan and America. The war between these two nations tested many traits and variables. The human template used to predict actions relies upon cultural and psychological constants.

For one thing, Hirohito, like any patriot, supported Japan because Japan was already in a war. This is regardless of whether he thought Japan should have been fighting the US or not. Japan was in a war, therefore Hirohito would support Japan. This is a cultural and national perspective recent modern times have forgotten. Which is why all the bunk you hear from the Left tends to be based upon Leftist philosophy and culture, rather than Japanese philosophy or culture. Some multiculturalists.

The Emperor is seen as a god because of Japan’s religion of Shintoism. The translation of divinity or “god” is actually inaccurate. [since it doesn’t mean God in the Christian-Judaism tradition] The closest approximation to how the Japanese saw Emperor Hirohito is to imagine what Americans would feel if George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson suddenly became alive and functioning again. And if you want to understand why Japan surrendered when Hirohito gave his national radio address, just imagine the public reaction if all of these larger than life characters in American history not only came back to life but also spoke through one voice for America to do something. Would America do what Lincoln tells them is the right thing to do? Or would America follow the US military, another institution they believed in, and fight against Lincoln, Roosevelt, Jefferson, and Washington? The analogy has some discrepancies of course. For one thing, Hirohito was seen as a living god precisely because he was seen to embody the best spiritual power of Japan. This combines the US position of President with ancestral worship of Washington, Jefferson, etc. Hirohito not only had the legal authority to make a surrender stick but he also had the public reaction angle down as well. He was the political, religious, and military head.

Bushido said to never surrender for in surrendering you violate your feudal oath to your lord. This would be the same as Benedict Arnold in American codes of honor. Because of Bushido, if the lord, Hirohito, tells you to surrender then that is what you do.

Japan’s surrender and MacArthur’s reign there is a good example of American Total War in action. The use of overwhelming firepower to force your enemy to submit to your will. Thus ending the war, and hence the suffering, far sooner than the piecemeal fighting present in the Arab-Israeli conflicts. People die and they will keep on dying, while the nuclear devices only required two instances of sacrifice to provide peace for future generations.

Kyoto was actually recommended as the primary target for a nuke target, you know. Kyoto was once the capital of Japan and was still the cultural capital of Japan, with its own shrine. Shrine as in a place to worship Shintoism, which doubles as a graveyard and church.

The Left will never mention that Kokura Arsenal, a purely military target, was the primary target for Fat Man. The bomb that was used to destroy Nagasaki.

The second plutonium bomb core was delivered to Tinian for use in the first deliverable Fat Man weapon against Kokura arsenal only days after the arrival of Little Boy. Due to weather problems related problems, the Kokura primary target was scrubbed and the secondary target Nagasaki was bombed.

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After the detonation of the first plutonium bomb core in the Trinity test, the next weapon that was available was the completed Little Boy. It was this weapon that was dropped on Hiroshima. Another Little Boy weapon would not have been ready for months, for this reason only one Little Boy unit was prepared. In contrast many Fat Man bomb assemblies were on hand (without plutonium), and the actual “Fat Man bomb” delivered against Japan only existed when assembly of the Fat Man unit with the plutonium core was completed shortly before the mission.

That is the reason why Hirohito did not surrender after the first bomb. Because the uranium core would have required many more months to assemble another such a-bomb. Not so with a plutonium core. The scientists told Hirohito that another bomb would not be around for a few months. When the US dropped another a bomb on Japan, when the leaders had not expected it to be so soon, psychological damage was done. A very high proportion of psychological damage.

The Japanese because of their code of the warrior, their honor code, and their culture would not surrender at anything less than absolute national and racial eradication. If they did not believe the US had the guts or the power to do what the US so ambly demonstrated that they would, the Japanese would have tried to get a conditional surrender after fighting a delaying defense action in Operation Olympus. The Japanese knew their island as only a native can and had accurately predicted where Operation Olympus would put down the main assault force. The Japanese were fortifying that place quite heavily. The Japanese skills at fortification were actually superior to the Germans in Normandy. There were stuff the Marines found while island hopping that the Germans didn’t even think to create.

This would have invited the Soviets in to occupy or grab a portion of the Japanese mainland, potentially creating another Iron Curtail/Berlin Wall. This would have increased the risk of Cold War tensions and mistakes occuring that would cause nuclear winter. The Soviets were notoriously ‘mistake prone’ if you look at Chernobyl.

Little boy was a 15 kiloton nuke. Fatman was a 21 kiloton nuke. MIRV missiles launched from nuclear missile submarines hold many many megatons. People talking about atomic bombs being dropped as if they were a great and terrible thing should realize that these nukes were tactical nukes. Tactical, not strategic.

Nuclear weapons, like flame throwers, are essentially terror weapons. The Left are easily terrorized. They are not like the Japanese. To the Left, one kiloton might as well be 100 megatons. It is not as if the difference in destruction actually matters to them; since when did an increase in loss of life ever matter to the Left?

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Original inspiration from Neo’s site.

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