Este livro descreve como os americanos perdoaram os crimes de guerra japoneses em troca de seu apoio na guerra contra o comunismo.

1. Eles torturaram e estupraram milhões de civis chineses e também em outros países invadidos.

2. Eles espancavam e deixavam sem comida os prisioneiros de guerra. Na visão deles, quem se rendia não tinha honra.

3. Assim como os nazistas, eles usavam seres humanos como cobaias em pesquisas de armas químicas e bacteriológicas.

4. Usaram essas armas contra cidades chinesas e mataram pelo menos 500 mil pessoas. Mas os pesquisadores capturados pelos americanos, que queriam as pesquisas, não foram punidos, só os capturados pelos russos.

5. Eles escravizaram em torno de 200 mil mulheres para satisfazer sexualmente seus soldados. A maioria vinha da China, Coreia e Filipinas, mas também algumas holandesas e australianas das regiões invadidas.

6. A ideia era reduzir os estupros cometidos pelos soldados e melhorar a imagem do Japão nos países invadidos, mas não funcionou porque, no fim das contas, só organizaram os estupros.

7. Só nos anos 90 é que a existência desses "bordéis" se tornou pública. Na verdade, não eram bordéis, já que as mulheres eram escravizadas. E continuaram funcionando por um ano após o fim da guerra, inclusive frequentados pelas dezenas de milhares de soldados americanos das forças de ocupação. A maioria dos americanos estava se lixando para as mulheres asiáticas e queria mais era vingança por Pearl Harbour.

Título do livro:“On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down”  
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“On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down” 

James Fell

I’ve been to Japan a couple of times. Nice place. Nice people. Except when they weren’t. In World War II, Japan was a dick. As bad as the fucking Nazis. But after Japan signed the surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, the Americans said we need you to be our allies in the fight against communism so we’re gonna forgive a lot of that nasty shit you did.

--On This Day in History Shit Went Down: September 2, 1945--

The Japanese Army tortured and raped and murdered millions of Chinese civilians, and wasn’t too nice to the other nations it conquered during the war. The army saw those who surrendered as without honor and beat and starved their prisoners. The Japanese also had this horrible thing called Unit 731.

Unit 731 was a chemical and biological warfare research program that was one giant fucking war crime. Well-funded by the Japanese government, the program used live human subjects for testing in horrific experiments and deployed biological weapons against Chinese cities and towns. It’s estimated the program was responsible for killing half a million people. And what happened to those sick fucks who ran Unit 731? Immunity. That’s what happened. Because the U.S. wanted the research. The Soviets put the Unit 731 researchers they captured on trial, but ‘murica did not. 

There was also the matter of “comfort women,” which is a sanitized term for women forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army to be raped by its soldiers. Close to 200,000 women were forced into such slavery, most of them from China, Korea, and the Philippines, but they also enslaved Japanese women. Some also came from the Netherlands and Australia, being captured in regions Japan invaded.

The idea of the comfort women was to provide brothels for the Japanese soldiers to reduce all the raping those soldiers were doing because it was making them look bad to the lands they’d just conquered. Except then they enslaved women into working in those “brothels” and their soldiers kept on raping anyway, so not such a good idea after all.

Few even knew about the existence of comfort women until the 1990s, because the Tokyo War Crimes Trials hushed it up. Supreme Allied Commander of the occupation of Japan, General Douglas MacArthur, saw to it that the issue of comfort women was swept under the rug during the trials. Americans mostly cared about revenge for Pearl Harbor, and didn’t give a shit about Asian women forced into sexual slavery. With the Cold War just beginning, the course of the trials was shaped by MacArthur and trial prosecutor Joseph Keenan to ensure that Japan became an acceptable ally to America in the global fight against communism. As a result, much of the war atrocities committed by Japan were hidden from the historical record for decades.

The brothels, which is a shit term because they were houses of sexual enslavement, were still in use for a year after the war. Tens of thousands of occupying American soldiers also used them.

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Eu já tinha lido sobre a maior parte disso, agora no caso desse livro específico, pelo menos nessa citação, eu achei suspeito falarem que os "Mengeles japoneses" capturados pela URSS aí sim foram punidos (e a URSS ainda mais naquela época lá tinha um mínimo de processos sérios para se saber se os vitimados pela URSS eram ou não "Mengeles japoneses"? E além disso há notícias de ex-SS reciclados em membros da KGB muito mais do que coisas do tipo nos EUA)e relacionar essa suposta impunidade no Japão com "evitar que eles fossem para o lado do comunismo" (E precisa isso para as populações terem antipatia pelo comunismo?) E ainda falar que os americanos queriam se vingar por Pearl Houber e relacionar isso com usar escravas sexuais chinesas e coreanas (e não japonesas), o que sempre li é que elas foram libertadas imediatamente pelos americanos e me parece bem mais lógico. Esse autor está me parecendo muito malicioso, como dizia o Olavo de Carvalho sempre fazendo uma caricatura odiosa dos que ele considera inimigos (nesse caso, os americanos dos EUA) sem querer ver nada de humano neles, nem passou pela cabeça dele que o quer que tenha de verdade nesses fatos de suposta impunidade no Japão (e sem dúvidas há muitos exageros no que ele escreve) tenha alguma coisa a ver com algum constrangimento pelas bombas atômicas (que não foram lançadas na Alemanha) e pelos nipo-japoneses internados em campos de internamentos nos EUA na segunda guerra mundial (coisa que não aconteceu com germanos-americanos). Se fosse o oposto ele logo iria usar esse argumento para falar mal também....

Hiroshima continuou habitável apesar de destruída por uma bomba atômica porque os elementos fortemente radioativos tinham meia vida curta.
E os com meia vida longa, como o urânio 235, justamente por isso não são perigosos. 

Why is Hiroshima habitable now when the half life of uranium-235 is 700 million years?

A 700-million-year half-life is exactly why uranium wasn't the main danger in Hiroshima. The real radioactive threat detonated 1,900 feet in the air—and the fireball never touched the ground.

A long half-life actually means low radioactivity; uranium-235 decays so slowly that it emits very little radiation at any given moment. The "Little Boy" bomb dropped on Hiroshima contained about 64 kilograms of enriched uranium, but only about 1 kilogram actually underwent nuclear fission. The process split those uranium atoms into lighter elements like strontium-90, cesium-137, and iodine-131. These fission products are the source of dangerous nuclear fallout. Unlike uranium, they have relatively short half-lives ranging from eight days to thirty years. Because they decay rapidly, they release a highly concentrated, lethal burst of radiation—but they also burn themselves out relatively quickly.

Because the bomb was an airburst, the nuclear fireball never touched the earth. It did not sweep up thousands of tons of dirt and debris, irradiate it, and drop it back onto the city as heavy, localized fallout. Instead, the intense heat carried the radioactive vapor up into the stratosphere within the mushroom cloud, where high-altitude winds caught it and dispersed it globally in microscopic, harmless amounts.

While some localized contamination did fall back to earth as "black rain," it was spread thin. The remaining short-lived isotopes decayed completely within weeks or months. The medium-lived isotopes, like cesium-137, were subjected to decades of heavy Japanese rainfall and typhoons, washing into the rivers and ocean. During the massive postwar reconstruction effort, the physical topsoil of the city was heavily disrupted, buried, or replaced entirely to lay the foundations for new infrastructure.

Today, background radiation in Hiroshima is indistinguishable from the normal levels found anywhere else on Earth, allowing the city to thrive as a modern metropolis of over a million residents.

https://sciencefun.quora.com/Today-background-radiation-in-Hiroshima-is-indistinguishable-from-the-normal-levels-found-anywhere-else-on-Earth-http