[karajorma]

They might build planes but what can they do with them? They had no carriers left to use them against US territory due to their limited range.

And if they decided to build nuclear weapons themselves what then?

[Charismatic]

[pop-in]NTF attack the Coly? First of all, when ever we fly NTF missions, in the main campaign (sp?) and the multiplayer missions, check the weapons. Subach and rockeyes. Crap ships, crap weapons. They  had no hope of having even a marginaly sucessfull suicide attack agienst the Coly. Can't believe you overlooked that fact.[/pop-in]

[Polpolion]

I think I would get some more cheat codes for my pilots. But since I told some GTVA guys in the other thread, they have them to, so it's more of a battle of reflexes. ahh! a bad guy!!! ~-K!!!~-K!!!! Whew... --uh ~- *BOOM*

[Blue Haired Maniac]

Frankly, Japan couln't threaten US assets anymore, even if they left it completely alone.

The USA became a real superpower in that war, and no production effort from Japan could have changed that.

They might build planes but what can they do with them? They had no carriers left to use them against US territory due to their limited range.

If they made ships they would be sunk. If they had planes with sufficient range they would be shot down..and they still had the problem with fuel..

And to make it clear - I cannot and never will justify or even try to rationalize murder. As soon as you jump on that train of though you're heading in the wrong direction.  Kill X innocents to save Y is not an option.

You allways have options. Hell, why not a massive paratropper assault on the POW camps and chopper extraction? If anything else, the US had resources for something like this.
Besides, Japan would surrender in a few days anyway, simply becuse he was loosing badly on the other front too. If the Us stopped, do you think Russia would too?

Chopper extraction.....

That was just too funny.

And to answer your question, if the US stopped, the Soviets wouldn't, as they liked the idea of getting a zone of occupation in Japan. Stalin was fuming when we dropped the bomb and screwed with his plans.

[karajorma]

Chopper extraction.....

I can only assume he meant bearded guys on motorbikes.

[Mathwiz6]

I think I would get some more cheat codes for my pilots. But since I told some GTVA guys in the other thread, they have them to, so it's more of a battle of reflexes. ahh! a bad guy!!! ~-K!!!~-K!!!! Whew... --uh ~- *BOOM*

Nah, typing speed. www.freespace2.com ~i!, (holds down ~) *glad he has autotarget on* KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK KKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!

[TrashMan]

And to make it clear - I cannot and never will justify or even try to rationalize murder. As soon as you jump on that train of though you're heading in the wrong direction.  Kill X innocents to save Y is not an option.

[aldo_14]

And to make it clear - I cannot and never will justify or even try to rationalize murder. As soon as you jump on that train of though you're heading in the wrong direction.  Kill X innocents to save Y is not an option.

Are you going to answer my question or continue to look like a hypocrite by avoiding it?

So what you're saying is that you'd be happy to stop the US, British, Russian, etc armies on the borders of Germany and leave be, then?

Look, it's in bold and italics!  So you know it's there to answer.

[Blue Haired Maniac]

War is all about sacrifice, and sometimes, killing a hundred thousand people to save millions of people has to be done. Yeah, it sucks, but in the end, I would rather have a couple hundred thousand people dead from a nuclear bomb than millions upon millions of people who would be killed had we not dropped the bomb.

In the end, your policy of inaction would've had far greater consequences than the nuclear bomb did.

[karajorma]

And then 60 years on people like Trashman would complain about the inhumanity of the US navy to have blockaded Japan and cause a famine.

[aldo_14]

Given that about 1.4m civillians would have died* in the first week the war was extended by the TM doctrine of doing precisely bugger all (except targeting any factories thoughtfully placed well away from civillian areas and only staffed by military personnel and marked as such with a big red bullseye - oh, and setting off your only Really Big Bomb in the ocean to make a nice scary flash), there probably wouldn't be many too people left in asia to complain, at least.

*assuming the Japanese, with their well known exemplary treatment of the civillian population and POWs, didn't decided to operate collective punishment in response to the famine - knowing the TM army won't touch their civvies in reprisals