They relied on ignorance that simply doesn't exist today. I think that goes a little to far. More like they "relied" on the context of a World War that had bu

They relied on ignorance that simply doesn't exist today. I think that goes a little to far. More like they "relied" on the context of a World War that had butchered 75 million people, 1/3 of that in the Pacific. And as I've noted elsewhere, was butchering 250,000 people per month in the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, and was looking to kill maybe a million Allied soldiers, with no upper limit for the Japanese population, as had just been demonstrated in Okinawa.