What Rises Must Set

Japan is getting as loose as OTL France in spreading nuclear tech.

Yeah, well, Japan is led by moderates, but...this is still the state that OTL thought the Pacific War was a good idea.

One thing about this TL: I think you could have had an Empire of Japan that became progressively less axe-crazy. That does not, however, mean that it'd be a nice place. Hence, ITTL: nuclear proliferation; using sarin gas during the Indochina War; continued repression in Korea; and presiding over the partition of China.

OTOH, there are slow signs of improvement and, over time, Japan's leaders will increasingly realise that this kind of stuff is Not Good for Business.
 
Thank you theg!

Ahem...moving on, I wouldn't say that Japan encourages nuclear proliferation, seeing as from the look of things - and the prologue - they prefer to see Indonesia heading along the lines of 'nuclear latency' much like the US with OTL Japan.

Israel though...a part of me likes to see those plucky underdogs win (they've got enemies all around), though the use of nukes is...iffy. OTOH, from the look of things they were being overrun so...yeah...

EDIT: the use of sarin gas doesn't really concern me. Part of strategy and tactics is to destroy enemy forces at minimal cost and risk to your own. That's the whole point behind deterrence (or MAD), but since the rebels don't have deterrence...
 
Yeah, well, Japan is led by moderates, but...this is still the state that OTL thought the Pacific War was a good idea.

One thing about this TL: I think you could have had an Empire of Japan that became progressively less axe-crazy. That does not, however, mean that it'd be a nice place. Hence, ITTL: nuclear proliferation; using sarin gas during the Indochina War; continued repression in Korea; and presiding over the partition of China.

OTOH, there are slow signs of improvement and, over time, Japan's leaders will increasingly realise that this kind of stuff is Not Good for Business.

Of course, I doubt the Empire of Japan out of all countries would consider using moderate measures in ensuring success on reaching strategic objectives. Furthermore the Japanese could've done worse I guess - for one they never attempted genocide on Koreans(in terms of mass killing), as was by the Turks, Soviets or Nazis.

Furthermore I don't particularly think nuclear proliferation is a bad thing until countries with weak nuclear security(i.e. OTL Pakistan/North Korea) begin to possess them; hopefully Indonesian generals don't start selling nukes to terrorist organisations.
 
Great to see this TL back and quite the bang to come to with it. The use of nuclear bombs by Israel is certainly going to leave its mark and I can't imagine that this is the end of it by any stretch of the imagination.
 
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