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Why didn't the US just nuke Korea?
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Why didn't the US just nuke Korea?
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>>501451
Because the Japanese state was centred on the home islands through the Great Yamato Cult of racism, so nuking Japanese Korea wouldn't have had any effect on the Emperor Cult government?
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>>501451
as bloodthirsty as corporatocracy is, very few people have the balls to do it
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>>501457
I think he means in the Korean War
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>>501468
What would have been the point? There were some plans to nuke air bases and supply depots in China but we didn't need nuclear weapons to beat North Korea
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>>501468
I'm not responsible for OP's stupidity. I gave a perfectly cromulent answer.
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>>501468
Because that would've gone over greatly with the Soviets.

(actually they'd probably just let it happen since it only hurts a crummy 3rd world country and no one wants MAD, but be really loud and paint the US as mad, warmongering, doomsday jingoists)
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>>501479
>(actually they'd probably just let it happen since it only hurts a crummy 3rd world country and no one wants MAD, but be really loud and paint the US as mad, warmongering, doomsday jingoists)

As opposed to how they did depict them.
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>>501451
Maybe because the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still fresh in their minds. Just spitballin' here.
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>>501451
Same reason hitler didn't hit London with nerve gas during WW2.
LEARN THE DIFFRENCE BETWEEN STRATIGIC AND TACTICAL WEAPONS
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>>501451
because lenin would have nuked london if they do that
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>>501486
I love foreign America.
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>>501590
Classic
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>>501564
and now that you brought it up, why didn't hitler used nerve gas on london?
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