Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Washington Naval Treaty - The parties, the motives, the negotiations, the loophole abuse..." video.

  1. They kind of all did, focusing on their areas of greatest interest.
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  2. Increasing difficulty of cheating is why no nation would have agreed to it.
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  3.  @LSeverusPertinax  Also: where did you get the waterline length X beam < 6700m figure? It seems very arbitrary. The planned-but-cancelled South Dakota class, which the UK and many in the US Congress wanted to nix, math out to ~6500, so would have been OK even though their planned displaced was 44000t The NoCar class, one of the most-adherent to the 35000t limit, yield a figure of 7326, and would have been impossible to build. The SoDaks, seen as a marvel of engineering to reduce hull size without compromising combat power, are barely under 6700. The Nelson class, even being tree-slow and with all the tricks the RN used in the design, exceeded 6700. I doubt any power would have agreed to that limit because, in 1922, they would not have seen a technical / engineering path to a battleship of respectable combat power and speed on a hull whose length times beam < 6700.
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