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402, Mmmmm.... I dunno.
Posted by dhalgren718, Wed Aug-11-04 07:33 AM
I've never heard about this pact you're talking about. I mean, yes, if conventional warfare had dragged on to capture the Japanese Islands, then I could imagine Hirohito pushing for a treaty like you're talking abuot, but after Midway, they could barely field a flotilla, meaning they couldn't move supplies. The Kamikaze approach to combat was proof of desperation: they knew the war was over. They just couldn't admit it without their Grand Final Battle ( ie, the Yamamoto, built as the largest battleship in history... but incapable of fending off the 'flying gnats' of the US Air Corps).

So I don't know. Stalin and Hirohito seems like a reach. Y'know, if that's what the OSS was talking, then yeah, it might mean throwing down the atomic gauntlet. But that was sort of the point in the first place: to rub the Soviets' noses in our military superiority.