{"id":2211,"date":"2005-08-06T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2005-08-06T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T21:11:00","slug":"no-holds-barred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/08\/06\/17\/11\/no-holds-barred\/","title":{"rendered":"No Holds Barred?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 60th anniversary of the US nuclear attack<\/a> on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is upon us. Virtually the final horrible act<\/a> of a horrible war. Was World War 2 a no holds barred conflict? Not quite. During WW2, both the Allies and the Euro Axis Powers possessed sufficient chemical weaponry to annihilate most of the major urban centres. Millions of casualties were possible. The Allies maintained vast stocks of “conventional” weapons, while the Germans built up stocks of the newer nerve agents.<\/p>\n

Mindful of the effects of mass chemical attacks during WW1, both sides chose not to use such weapons on each other<\/a>. It was their version of MAD<\/a>. It was sufficient to deter even the Nazis.<\/p>\n

As the war turned against Nazi Germany and Allied bombers pounded German cities to rubble, the incentive to use CW increased. By 1944, the Nazis had enough tabun to kill everyone in London, as well as large stockpiles of more traditional chemical agents. They did not use them, not even at Normandy, where the Allied invasion forces were almost completely defenseless against gas attack.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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