Secret Weapons Developed by Japan During World War II

[SeaBreeze]

Japanese secret weapons developed during World War II...http://io9.com/11-secret-weapons-developed-by-japan-during-world-war-2-1669775923

Normally, it's the Western Powers who are remembered for developing some of the most innovative and conceptual weapons of the Second World War. But when it came to experimental military technologies, Japan suffered from no shortage of ideas. Here are 11 you should know about.Illustration: MXY-7 Okha Suicide Attacker, by Fiddlers Green

Japan emerged as a world power in 1905 after its humiliating defeat of Russia. Though allied with the Entente during the First World War, Imperial Japan shifted its allegiances after being snubbed at Versailles. Starting in the 1930s, and allied with Nazi Germany, the empire began a series of aggressive campaigns at it worked to assert itself in the Pacific region. Its actions would eventually bring it into conflict with the United States, a development that proved to be its undoing.

Shōwa Japan, knowing it was up against a superior enemy, both in terms of industrial strength and technological sophistication, accelerated its efforts to keep pace. To that end, the Japanese Imperial Army was equipped with advanced conventional weapons, specialized suicide attack weapons, and even weapons to conduct biological and chemical warfare. Indeed, Japanese military planners did not care much for the Geneva Protocol. And in fact, they assumed that banned weapons were particularly effective.

The Japanese developed dozens, if not hundreds, of highly conceptual weapons during the war, including some that actually made it to the battlefield. Here are 11 you need to know about.

 

[WhatInThe]

Everyone seems to forget that Japan was the only other nation besides the US that fielded a large navy and/or a lot of aircraft carriers. And had some impressive battleships. But like Germany they found out bigger isn't necessarily better. Also if you read the Gawker thread it was noted that they forgot to mention Japan's nuclear program which supposedly tested a successful nuke near the end of the war. But they did try a Star Wars beam.

It noted the bio warfare unit that was given a free pass at the end of the war in exchange for information. People forget atrocities like that and it those kind of atrocities that need to be brought up in history classes so no one forgets about what happened to those soldiers and what to avoid in the future.

 

[Debby]

Nobody seems to learn a great deal from 'history'. After WW2 and the two bombs that finished off Nagasaki and Hiroshima and yet here we are with America putting the screws to Russia and both powers having nuclear weapons and with America even changing their own law that prohibited 'First strike' with their nukes back in 2010, it would seem that history classes are an exercise in futility if the hope is that we learn from the past.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (past Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under President Reagan and associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal) writes:[FONT=Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] "[/FONT]In an article published by Op-Ed News, Eric Zuesse supports my reports of indications that Washington is preparing for a nuclear first strike against Russia. US war doctrine has been changed. US nuclear weapons are no longer restricted to a retaliatory force, but have been elevated to the role of preemptive nuclear attack. Washington pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia and is developing and deploying an ABM shield. Washington is demonizing Russia and Russia’s President with shameless lies and propaganda, thus preparing the populations of the US and its client states for war with Russia...."
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/06/18/367518/us-beating-nuclear-war-drums/



Given the above, does it sound like anybody is learning anything from history?

 

[Debby]

The article that I posted in my last comment went on to lay out the probably outcome if the unthinkable happens. As you listen to the propaganda that comes via CNN, CTV, CBC, MSNBC and all the others, remember the following statement:

In an article published in the December 2008 issue of Physics Today, three atmospheric scientists point out that even the substantial reduction in nuclear arsenals that the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty hoped to achieve, from 70,000 warheads in 1986 to 1700-2200 warheads by the end of 2012, did not reduce the threat that nuclear war presents to life on earth. The authors conclude that in addition to the direct blast effects of hundreds of millions of human fatalities, “the indirect effects would likely eliminate the majority of the human population.” The stratospheric smoke from firestorms would cause nuclear winter and agricultural collapse. Those who did not perish from blast and radiation would starve to death.

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/06/18/367518/us-beating-nuclear-war-drums/


I'm thinking it's a safe bet that whenever someone sees me posting at this point, that their reaction is 'oh no, what now' or 'her again' but take note, I'm relaying in this instance the words of one of your own. And he's no slouch having credentials in both government and journalism and finance that far exceed anything that most of us can boast of. I think that you average American citizens should be aware of what some members of your own country are warning of.

On the other hand, considering what he is warning of, I can fully relate to the concept of 'ignorance is bliss'.

 

[kcvet]

their biggest secret was the Abomb they were building with help from the Nazi's

 

[kcvet]

the short version