Japan: a WW2 nuclear threat?

摘要

President franklin D. Roosevelt's personal wartime physician, Vice-Admiral Ross Mclntire, revealed in his 1946 book White House Physician that FDR agonised over reports that Nazi Germany intended to launch airborne biological - and even possibly atomic -weapons which would decimate Allied populations, livestock and agriculture. Butjapan also played an important role in the Axis powers' "total war" strategy. Since 1932, the Imperial Japanese Army's (IJA) special germ and chemical warfare group, Unit 731 in Manchuria, had been lethally experimenting on hundreds of thousands of Korean and Chinese civilians and prisoners of war. With the right means of delivery, this could pose a serious problem for the Allies.