Akira causing World War 3

[Wolfpac]

During the movie it said that Akira caused World War III. Now I know he didn't do it directly, but does anyone know how he is responsible for World War III? Did the Japanese Blame the explosion on the Americans or something and it all got out of hand from there?

[FayeFayeV]

....I thought the Akira explosion was after WW3...

Lemme check...


Edit: Well, the explosion took place 31 years before the plot, But it doesn't mention anywhere of Akira's starting of the war...:confused:

[Lengis]

I checked the manga.

9 hours after the Akira explosion, WW3 began. So yea, he was responsible for it.

[Cetacious]

Project already said something on this one over here:

http://www.animeboards.com/showpost.php?p=537332217&postcount=2

Though I forgot to ask him where he got that from...

[Wolfpac]

So I'm guessing what happened was the Akira explosion happened. No one could explain it so Japan blamed it on an attack from America or Russian or whatever other country had Nuclear weapons. Thus having to get revenge by bombing back one of those countries and the rest was World War 3.

[DarkPrimus]

Yup. Remember, it's back during the Cold War.

[Nikosamma]

hmmmm

[GetterRobo]

I connect it to the Ender's Shadow series. This is random and you may not read but I place Shadow of The Hegemon as the basis of WW3 in Akira so I could explain why Japan was the way it was when Akira started...

Making sense? No but I don't care. I love it.

[HolyWhippet]

It might have been a case of automatic responses. In the event of a really big explosion, their missiles are programmed to retaliate based on the assumption that someone else must have blasted them.

[SamIam]

I checked the manga.

9 hours after the Akira explosion, WW3 began. So yea, he was responsible for it.

The details are a bit fuzzy (saw it a long time ago) but one thing bothers me about the link to WWIII ... was the Akira explosion radioactive?

Also keep in mind that even during the height of the cold war, there was a significant effort on the part of nuclear powers to verify for intent/accident/other cause ... in order to prevent the possibility of "jumping the gun" so to speak. Despite the ideological differences, the nuclear club members have an understanding of the stakes involved (exemplified by McNamaras MAD paradigm of Mutually Assured Destruction)

So, even if the explosion mimiced effect of say a small nuclear bomb (radioactivity etc) ... then there would still be a high priorty investigation as to the cause.

Sam