Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7559950-20130911012534/@comment-5169980-20130922234558

The German nuclear program was stop to the profit of program that could be completed in the next six months.

The Japanese were having a laboratory to develop biological weapon and at the end of the war, were planning a chimical attack on the American coast with the I-400. If they had use the result of their reseach on the American marines and on the west coast, more American would had die and maybe that the American will to fight might had faded at one moment.

To operate a change in the Japanese way of making war, I already saw a event that may been important enough to industrialize Japan and build more truck and tank instead of counting on the "Japanese spirit" where a entire army would run on with saber instead of using their guns. In the 1920e, if I remember well, the old Japanese general who fought against Russia defend the Japanese treditional way of fighting while the young Japanese officer defend the mass production of weapons like tanks, truck and anything that could be useful.

If the new generation had succeed to convince the Diet that modernization of war tradition was necessary, in addition of chemical weapons, who know?

Personnally, I think the major problem tof the Axis was the failure to mass produce war material, If I made Germany and Japan mass producer of war equipment on the allies model, I would give them a small chance to win, Italy is weak everywhere and a Axis without Italy would had been stronger.