Yup and their response rather than "We must get a deterrent so it doesn't happen again"
was to stick a monument at Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a message that it should never happen again to anyone.
( Peej, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:59, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Being a bit obtuse there really,
I mean they were utterly decimated by the war, so of course they weren't able to immediately develop a deterrant. Do you not think if they themselves had nukes Hiroshima and Nagasaki would never have happened?
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 12 May 2010, 17:07, Reply)

Different time altogether
and they have had 70 years to develop/buy one
( Peej, Wed 12 May 2010, 17:13, Reply)

That's why I felt it's not a good example
Japan are not an aggressive country at all now so you could class them as being under little threat from other countries.

We on the other hand have been stomping around for generations, not least recently in the middle-east where there are some prickly characters.

If our disarmment of nuclear weapons co-incided with our enemies acquiring them there could be room for worry there in an area you don't really want to be pissing about..
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 12 May 2010, 17:20, Reply)