>we can't have nukes because we got nuked ugu~~>however, we have regular bombs even though we got regular bombedI think it's a matter of when, not if, Japan becomes a nuclear power.
>>65337300Internal politics are probably a bigger reason not to have that discussion unless a majority of japs go "omg america is leaving us and we NEED it to survive"
>>65337300the don't WANT nukes because they were nuked. nips don't have generational trauma from the normal bombs so they don't care about those.
>>65337334If getting nuked was such a generational trauma there wouldn't be millions of people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki right now. "Trauma" is just a code word for I wish we didn't lose.
>>65337348that's not how that works, dude
Japan should just host US nukes again. There's no need to jump through those non-proliferation hoops when your strongest ally has plenty to spare.
I dont think its nukes. Just nuclear power in general. Fukushima didnt help their phobia of all things radioactive.
>>65337300>Japan is today considered an exemplar latent or threshold nuclear state, capable of developing weapons in a short timespan.>It is unique among non-nuclear weapons states in that it possesses a full nuclear fuel cycle and plutonium stockpile, as part of its civilian nuclear energy industry, and advanced developments in the industries necessary to make nuclear weapons.
>>65337300>>65337634>Japan has also developed the M-V three-stage solid-fuel rocket, somewhat similar in design to the U.S. LGM-118A Peacekeeper ICBM, giving it a missile technology base. It now has an easier-to-launch second generation solid-fuel rocket, Epsilon.>In 2011, former Minister of Defense Shigeru Ishiba explicitly backed the idea of Japan maintaining the capability of nuclear latency:>"I don't think Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons, but it's important to maintain our commercial reactors because it would allow us to produce a nuclear warhead in a short amount of time ... It's a tacit nuclear deterrent"
>>65337300Japan and other advanced non-nuclear countries just prefer the ability to develop nukes at a short notice, while keeping the image of nice non-nuclear guys>In 2012, Japan was reported to have 9 tonnes of plutonium stored in Japan, which would be enough for more than 1,000 nuclear warheads, and an additional 35 tonnes stored in Europe.[39][40] It has constructed the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, which could produce further plutonium.[39] Japan has a considerable quantity of highly enriched uranium (HEU), supplied by the U.S. and UK, for use in its research reactors and fast neutron reactor research programs; approximately 1,200 to 1,400 kg of HEU as of 2014.[41] Japan also possesses an indigenous uranium enrichment plant[33][42] which could hypothetically be used to make highly enriched uranium suitable for weapons use.>Japan has also developed the M-V three-stage solid-fuel rocket, somewhat similar in design to the U.S. LGM-118A Peacekeeper ICBM, giving it a missile technology base. It now has an easier-to-launch second generation solid-fuel rocket, Epsilon. Japan has experience in re-entry vehicle technology (OREX, HOPE-X). Toshiyuki Shikata, a Tokyo Metropolitan Government adviser and former lieutenant general, said that part of the rationale for the fifth M-V Hayabusa mission, from 2003 to 2010, was that the re-entry and landing of its return capsule demonstrated "that Japan's ballistic missile capability is credible."[43]
>~250,000 japs die from nuclear bombs>this is generational trauma!!!>1 million japs die from conventional bombs>this is cool doesn't bother uswhy are 2 big bombs that kill far fewer people so much more traumatizing than many smaller bombs that kill way more people?
>>65337972it's kind of like how unit 731 or nanking is generational trauma, despite the low number of deaths compared to conventional warfare.i'm sure there's lots of other examples.
>>65337633>>65337972you people have no idea what you are talking about, Japan is using nuclear energy since the 80's
There's always been a small but vocal part of population that choose peace over anything else. And yes >>65337633 >>65338022, Fukushima scared them. They're just not as cowardly as the Germans are and don't have access to cheap Slav natural gas so they still use nuclear energy.
>>65337972Japs are hysterical
>>65337300>when, not if, Japan becomes a nuclear power.Thats their entire strategy, they store tons of plutonium "for the reactors" and they develope civilian stuff that can turned around used to deliver payloads in short notice. In an all out war it would prolly take them less than a year to become a nuclear power.
>>65338055>>65338022You also got the horror stories like what happened to Hisashi Ouchi
>>65338586>be named Ouchie>die in one of the most painful ways possibleFate has a twisted sense of humor.
>>65337300Didn't some Japanese death-cult detonate nukes in the Australian outback?
>>65337300>I think it's a matter of when, not if, Japan becomes a nuclear power.That's pretty much the case with every single country with an advanced technology sector.Once taboo gets broken it is a free for all
>>65337993>unit 731 or nanking is generational traumaHow are things that didn't happen generational trauma?
