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How The U.S. Bankrupted The British Empire - The Secret Bill for WWII

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How The U.S. Bankrupted The British Empire - The Secret Bill for WWII The Heavyweight Bout: A More Accurate View of WWII The Fighters Going In Britain (the defending champion): Wealthy, controlled a quarter of the globe, had vast gold reserves and overseas investments, commanded the world's most powerful navy, ran the global financial center in London. Germany (the aggressive challenger): Rebuilt industrial base, modern military, driven by revanchist ideology and territorial ambitions. United States (the fresh fighter waiting ringside): Economically powerful, geographically isolated, militarily unprepared but with massive industrial potential. The Fight Itself Rounds 1-3 (1939-1941) : Britain stands alone, taking massive punishment. Bleeding gold reserves, liquidating assets, cities burning from the Blitz. Germany looks dominant but is overextending, attacking in all directions. Round 4 (1941) : The U.S. enters the ring after Pearl Harbor. Fresh, powerful, with intact in...
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Japan's World War II Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons Programs

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A Comprehensive Assessment of their WW2 WMD BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT: Japan pursued three parallel weapons of mass destruction programs during World War II—nuclear weapons research through Army and Navy initiatives, extensive biological warfare operations centered at Unit 731 in Manchuria, and chemical weapons development and deployment. While the biological and chemical programs resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, primarily among Chinese civilians and prisoners of war, Japan's nuclear efforts never progressed beyond laboratory-scale uranium enrichment before being disrupted by Allied bombing. Japan actively deployed biological weapons in China through multiple attack methods including plague-infected flea bombs dropped on cities, contamination of water supplies and food sources, and distribution of disease-laden materials, causing epidemic outbreaks that killed thousands. American postwar decisions by McArthur and Truman to grant immunity to Unit 731 personnel in exchange f...
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