The Ghost of RubangB said:
Not by mutating generations of children, including people born long after the war is resolved, and not by bombing a town with a huge immigrant Korean population that had nothing to do with the war. But I don't buy into the idea that that war in particular needed drastic measures because they were fanatics. Conventional weapons are always enough. The bombing of Tokyo wiped out 100,000 non-combatants (almost as many as the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, and more than Nagasaki), and 25% of the city. But the next generation was born without birth defects from radiation. |
Scientifically there is no proof of genitic mutation beyond the first offspring. Even then, the biggest issue tends to be an increased risk for throat cancer, which doesn't tend to show up until late in like 60s-70s.
Additionally, you would of hate to have seen the other option. It was a total blockade of Japan and bombing of their railines that would of destroyed their food population and caused mass famine that could of lead to a GIANT portion of the country dieing.
The three options were basically...
1) Dropping the bombs
2) Starving upwords to 70% of Japan to death.
3) Massive ground invasion causing massive casulties to both sides.
With 2 & 3 adding in the risk of russia splitting Japan up like Vietnam and Korea.
