I watched the BS1 Special "Endless Annihilation Battle: Approaching the Japanese Mainland Landing Operation."

It was a documentary program about Operation Olympic, a landing operation in Kyushu that was planned after the Battle of Okinawa.

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This time, I was shocked by three things.

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic bombs was planed to be dropped on the country on a weekly basis.

- At the end of the Nagasaki bombing, the United States still had a stock of nine atomic bombs.

- And the U.S. military had the capacity to ship three atomic bombs every month.

- The third atomic bomb was scheduled to be dropped in Tokyo.

The U.S. military had certified that there were no civilians in Japan.

- Despite the fact that 100,000 people were killed in the air raids on Tokyo and 180,000 in the Battle of Okinawa, instead of surrendering, civilians are training for military operations (guerrilla warfare, bombing suicide missions) -- the people of that country are all "soldiers".

- In fact, the government had issued a call for guerrilla warfare in the country, called "100 million ball breaking.

Poison gas was prepared as a means of countering guerrilla warfare in Japan.

- Of course, the use of poison gas was prohibited by the Geneva Conventions of 1925 after World War I, but the United States, which suffered more than 10,000 casualties in the guerrilla war in Okinawa, was beyond the stage of hesitation in using it.

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As I was watching the program, I wondered where the nine atomic bombs that were on standby in the stockpile would have been dropped after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, (and Tokyo) if Japan had not accepted defeat on August 15.

At any rate, the U.S. military was planning to drop three bombs in southern Kyushu (around Kagoshima) for the Kyushu landing operation.

We can see that even the U.S. military, which carried out the atomic bombings, thought of the atomic bombs as "powerful versions of conventional weapons.

Well, even MacArthur was dismissed by President Truman when he tried to implement a plan to drop 30 to 50 atomic bombs on Manchuria during the Korean War in 1950.

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As the only country in the world to have experienced the atomic bombing, it seems that the people of our country are losing their knowledge of the atomic bombing.

When An elementary school student asked a bomb victim

"How many atomic bombs were used in Hiroshima?"

he was stunned ---- I think that it's understandable.