Timeline to Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
1637 - Japan bans predatory Portuguese, Spanish, and other European traders from Japanese ports. Dutch traders are allowed to remain in Nagasaki
July 8, 1853 - Admiral Matthew Perry leads a U.S. Fleet, on an unprovoked intrusion into Tokyo Bay, starting the process of forcing Japan to open up its ports (especially Nagasaki) for trade.
1854 - Japan asks for, and receives, a modern ship from the Dutch. The Dutch train Japan in modern shipbuilding and warfare in the port of Nagasaki.
1854 to present – Americans continue westward colonization, exterminating much of the Native American population, and marginalizing the survivors.
1931 – Japan senses weakness in the fighting between Chinese nationalists and communists, and begins westward colonization of Manchuria.
1937 – Japan makes a barely provoked invasion of China, exterminating much of the native population of Nanking, and marginalizing the survivors.
1941 – In response to oil sanctions, Japan retaliates for the 1853 U.S. Fleet intrusion of Tokyo Bay, by attacking the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Revenge is a dish served very cold, and generations old.
1945 – As they were losing the Battle of Okinawa (The Typhoon of Steel), the Japanese military, following the code of Bushido--which requires giving up one’s life for the Emperor rather than surrender--forces Okinawan civilians to commit suicide. Families blow themselves up with hand grenades, and mothers are compelled to strangle their own children.
August 6, 1945 – Americans drop atomic bomb on Hiroshima, exterminating much of the population, and maiming many of the survivors.
August 9, 1945 – The initial target is cloud-covered, so the Americans drop the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Same results.
August 15, 1945 – Japan surrenders, and despite the Bushido code, millions of Japanese civilians are not required to commit suicide. Mothers are not compelled to strangle their own children. No more Allied troops are required to give their lives in the invasion of Japan.
September 2, 1945 – Japan signs surrender documents on a ship of the U.S. Fleet in Tokyo Bay.