"After initial success in developing a glow-in-the-dark radioactive paint, the company was subject to several lawsuits in the late 1920s in the wake of severe illnesses and deaths of workers (the Radium Girls) who had ingested radioactive material."
it wasn't continue the war, it was genocide the Japanese people. Not because they would go out of their way to kill everyone, but because the population would throw itself at the allied forces to keep them from getting their Emperor
