Every nation denied A-Bomb by America should fall on its knees and thank God (and Washington DC)

The biggest single attraction of the A Bomb for America, circa 1945, was how expensive it was.

So expensive that only America could seem to afford it.

A de facto economic atomic monopoly.

Only America couldn't afford it, could it ?

The Path not Taken : Pax Penicillia ,1945

How different our world would have turned out to be if the selfless and open morality of the Manhattan Yellowmagic project had been the path 1945 America had continued down.

Instead it chose to turn to the selfish secrecy of the Manhattan Yellowcake project as its reigning ethos.

Japanese human germ warfare experimentation , too, becomes 'Born Secret' in the Yellowcake Pax Americana

In 1945, two possible approaches to implementing the Pax Americana lay before America : the selfish secrecy of the Manhattan Yellowcake project or the selfless openness of the Manhattan Yellowmagic project.

An early test of 1945's Pax Americana was how American's scientific establishment would handle news of Japan's truly horrific germ warfare efforts from its UNIT 731.

my Dalhousie University Bicentenary / Bicentennial (1818-2018) project : Martin Henry Dawson and his selfless penicillin

As an alumnus of Dalhousie University (Halifax Canada) , which will be two hundred years young in 2018 , I have long wanted to honour its 200 years of achievements in an unique way.

When the amazing wartime penicillin story of Dalhousie graduate Dr Martin Henry Dawson (1896-1945) fell into my lap in 2004 , I felt a thorough exploration of it would be a wonderful contribution to the bicentenary/ bicentennial celebrations.

Here, I felt , is truly someone who exemplified the "selfless service to greater humanity" that the university tried to instil in all its students and staff.

The SOFT POWER War : 1945-1992

In 1945-1946, the USSR was too weakened by the recent war to want to fight another big war right away - and all of America should have known it.

At least some of America's top leadership did understand.

Meanwhile the USSR understood that , despite Hiroshima, nothing had really changed in terms of fighting and winning big wars against opponents with large territories.

Atomic warfare treated differently from Chemical and Germ warfare because of its commercial potential

The western Allies spent more on chemical and germ weapons than they ever did on atomic weapons - yet they never used them.

But surprisingly, the only thing that left and right wing historians of the decision to drop the Bomb agree upon is that part of the reason why it was dropped was the fear that Congress would wonder why a $ 2 billion war-ending weapon was never used to prevent massive American soldier casualties in any invasion of Japan.

But billions were also spent on germ and chemical warfare weapons and they too would have ended the war quickly.

So why weren't they used ?

Why was it unacceptable to kill Japanese babies by gas poisoning or germ toxin poisoning , but acceptable to kill them by boiling them alive and by radiation poisoning ?

Yellow Magic , not Yellowcake , marked the shift from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana

I argue that Pax Britannica lingered on into the end of WWII , but as soft culturally-economic power, not hard military- economic power.

The British brand had a lot of strength against the America brand - it still had a lot of moral capital.

Not the least because Britain had stood all alone defending the world's Four Freedoms while isolationist America had yawned like a bored bystander watching a schoolyard bully beat up a pre-schooler.

Winston Churchill had led that fight but in the Fall of 1942 - unknown to most - his party, the Tories, had thrown away most of the global good will , all in an instant.