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In a 1947 memo, MacArthur's command confirmed immunity for all Unit 731 officers. The general who tried Japanese officers for war crimes at Manila simultaneously shielded Japan's worst war criminals from Tokyo.

On May 28, 1998, Pakistan detonated five nuclear warheads inside Koh Kambaran mountain; the granite turned white, then grey. A nation that had denied the bomb for two decades announced it in a single afternoon.

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