[WW] ...'till they glow...

["nvdoyle" <nvdoyle@home.com>]

Ahem. No. Nagasaki was hit because the Japanese didn't surrender in the
three days pause given afterwards. They didn't really start to take it
seriously until after the Soviets hit them in Manchuria, and were
threatening amphibious invasion from the north. The Japanese had already
suffered -worse- under the incendiary bombings of Tokyo and other major
cities.

Side note - want to put your players through some fun? Let them survive the
war in the Pacific, through all of the island assaults, jungle diseases,
etc. Then, in Nov. of 1945, after a demonstration of the atomic bomb failed
to impress the Japanese into surrendering, put them through Operation
Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu. It would have dwarfed the Overlord landings
(150,000 troops), with slightly over 430,000 assault troops. By comparison,
Sicily had 170,000, Okinawa 180,000. And...(I'm trying to find the source
documents for this)...the invasion beaches were to be prepared by a
10-plane, 10 atomic weapon strike, each of approx 10-15 kilotons (same as
Fat Man/Little Boy). Ten weapons going off at once, then wait three days,
and send in the assualt troops. Welcome to Hell.

Noah


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brock Knudsen" <mrgod2u@home.com>
To: <weirdwars@gamerz.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [WW] RE: [WW]- {OT} What do the Germans think of the game?


>
> Not to mention the internment of Japanese citizens by both the Americans
> and Canadians at the start of the war, or the fact that the POW camps
> that the British set up treated German prisoners worse than the Germans
> treated the Allied POW's. Or the fact that the US government not only
> spared but actively recruited the Nazi scientists and secret service
> agents smuggling them out of Germany before the Russians could get their
> hands on them. Or probably the second worst atrocity of the war (after
> of course the Holocaust) the fact that the US military essentially nuked
> a second Japanese city because they wanted to see how a differently
> configured nuke would work.
>