@RobertCNott @DerekPederson3 I’m weary of the following notions:
1. Absence of evidence is evidence , actually.
2. Claims about the existence of evidence are equivalent to said evidence.
3. Evidence is evidence to the contrary, actually.
I’m much less concerned with the plagiarism than the fact that so many people who ought to be, aren’t. And it’s not as if the plagiarism wasn’t part of a larger pattern of well documented deception.
Who does it serve, and who is harmed by venerating a fraud? And who by refusing to?
@HattsworthIsYou@SCShipyards I was just describing a hypothetical situation in which the OP’s belief was actually true. You’re describing the actual situation.
@HattsworthIsYou@SCShipyards Even if so, there is the question of how easily and quickly a person could improve their test score by honing such skills. Surely that at least would vary between individuals? There would still be a metric for them to deny.
You're not going to like this. No nuclear bombs. The entire country of Japan is destroyed and large swaths of Japan would likely be a chemical wasteland to this day similar to Red Zones of France from WW1.
Option 1 was the starvation campaign which many people say this is what we should have done but what they it completely ignore in the starvation campaign plan is like 4 to 6 million Japanese estimated to die in this campaign which also calls for the continued heavy fire bombing campaigns and up to 30 nuclear bombs planned to be dropped between 1946 and 1947. Though in this scenario there would be no nuclear bombs and instead would be fire bombing.
Option 2 launch the ground invasion and the preparatory stage of the ground invasion would have seen the largest deployment of chemical weapons ever 50 Japanese cities would have been targeted estimated casualties from this is 5 million dead 5 million injured and that's before a single American soldier hits Japanese soil which would then culminate with additional up to 4 million Japanese military casualties and an additional couple million Japanese civilian casualties. In this scenario the nuclear component is removed which would delete the 7 nuclear bombs that were planned to be dropped on Kyushu by the end of 1945 and 15 in 1946 but the chemical weapons campaign continues.
The chemical attacks called for dropping 56,583 tons of poison-gas bombs in the first 15 days as part of the "initial gas blitz" with additional 23,935 tons of gas bombs every month that the war dragged on or until all targets had been hit.
When landings began in November 1945 tactical fighters and attack planes were to drop another 8,971 tons in the first 15 days, followed by 4,984 tons of bombs every 30 days on Japanese troops in Kyushu. Other planes would swoop low, using spray tanks to spread thousands of tons of liquid gas over Japanese defenders. During the landings, U.S. troops would bring ashore 67 Army battalions of 105-mm and 155-mm howitzers and 4.2-inch mortars that were to fire about 1,400 tons of gas shells every 30 days.
US forces would deploy
Phosgene,
Hydrogen Cyanide,
Cyanogen Chloride,
Mustard/ Liquid Mustard
The planned attack on Tokyo was to start at 8 am to ensure that greatest number of people would be concentrated in the city. B-29 and B-24 bombers would drop either 21,180 gas bombs weighing 500 pounds or 5,420 bombs weighing 1,000 pounds, depending upon their availability all bombs would be filled with Phosgene.
In addition
By August 1945 the United States had stockpiled almost 51 million chemical artillery shells, more than 1,000,000 chemical bombs, and more than 100,000 aircraft spray tanks were available. That's not including the chemical weapons. The United Kingdom have been stockpiling as well for the invasion with 41,000 tons of mustard gas and 14,000 tons of phosgene and various tear gases stockpiled in Australia and India in preparation for the invasion of Japan.
@SandraMillar6@Osint613 iHL does not recognize mass shootings as legitimate acts of armed resistance.
Nor does it recognize raping and pillaging as such, either, because you’re probably mistaken about that too.