Luxas on Nostr: Thanks for sharing this, it sent me down an interesting rabbit hole, researching ...

Thanks for sharing this, it sent me down an interesting rabbit hole, researching mustard gas, etc. Apparently, there are many similarities in symptoms of mustard and radiation poisoning. However, there’s also a lot that doesn’t match, for example hair loss is not a symptom of mustard poisoning, but it is from radiation. The blast radius and types of burns from dark pattern clothing as well as shadows bleached into stone, are apparently consistent with a small atomic blast with a hypocenter. Even the Japanese reported tracking radiation. Why would they lie? Mustard was also pretty well-known at the time by Japanese doctors, as there were plans by the US to use chemical weapons even before the atomic bombs were dropped, but none of the Japanese doctors had believed it was a mustard attack. Not to mention, the way mustard is dispersed is not consistent with what was seen. Also, the largest known non-nuclear bomb “MOAB” has a way smaller blast radius than what was seen with Nagasaki and Hiroshima. While there are similarities, it seems there’s equally facts that don’t support the non-atomic hypothesis.