Posted on 05/28/2016 9:42:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
In all the press about Obama visiting Hiroshima, Japan, where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on its enemy in 1945, not one word has surfaced about the fact that the Japanese were, at the same time, working on their own atomic bomb, and would have used it on Americans had they been able. Nor has anything been said about the fact that they were much closer to making an atomic bomb than most Americans know.
The Japanese had begun a program to develop a “uranium” bomb even before the sneak attacked on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, killing some 2000 Americans and starting war with America. They had top scientists working on their atomic bomb, including a future Nobel-prize winner, Hideki Yukawa. Over the course of the war they spent millions on the program, hunting uranium, building crucial separators, designing a workable bomb, and elevating their program to a top priority at the end of the war as they frantically sought “miracle” weapons with which to turn the tide going against them. Had America not used its atomic bombs and instead invaded the Japanese mainland, the Japanese were planning to use atomic weapons on the invasion fleet, which certainly would have been devastating. Kamikazis had been bad enough. Imagine if they had been armed with nuclear weapons.
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They started it and we finished it. End of story.
Here’s a question. Couldn’t the Germans and Japanese at least make dirty (radioactive) bombs? Maybe they didn’t have enough radioactive materials to even do that.
If Germany had won the war, I wonder if they would have eventually turned on Japan.....
There was no way Germany could win after the US got involved. The shows just how insane Hitler was thinking he could defeat everyone.
V-2 was a hell of a missile though.
While my memory is a little vague, the urgency was great beyond belief.
I'm 72. He was probably my age when he told me the story and that's almost 30 years ago.
Not to mention the jet fighters and guided missiles found after the war readied to stop the expected US invasion - all of which the US had no counter and would have sunk many capital ships.
Bomb or not they were planning on using bio weapons delivered by subs.
There's a fascinating chapter on the discovery of Germany's "atomic bomb" and Japan's. Basically Germany's atomic bomb was some uranium percolating inside a cast iron pot submerged in some heavy water in a well; Japan's scientists needed some sort of electronic tube that was scarce and the navy had control over them since they were needed for some shipboard type stuff.
Niels Bohr, the Danish Nobel Peace prize in atomic studies (or something) said that America would have to turn itself into one gigantic factory to build a bomb. If you read the book, you'll find out that is exactly what we did.
Streifer doesn’t believe an atomic bomb was ever tested in Hamhung. In an email correspondence he wrote,
``I have personally interviewed an allied prisoner of war who was about five miles away at the time. He didn’t recall an explosion at sea. I also read the diaries of other POWs, and they make no mention of an explosion at sea. If an atomic bomb explodes five miles away, you’ll know it!’’
Maybe . but if Operation Overlord failed,which was a real possibility, the National Socialists might have had time to build and test an atomic weapon on the allies.
Best to be safe and kill them all which they were very fortunate we didn't do - same for the Japs.
The japs fought on after the first bomb. The military wanted to keep fighting after the second bomb but their living god demanded the surrender. Even then they made plans to attack the Allied fleet when it anchored in Tokyo bay in the hopes that their living god would change his mind.
I have heard what you report; i.e. that the Japs and Germans were off on the wrong path.
Rush made a specific point and was particularly P.O. about Obama doing his grovel at this time saying it was a deliberate act on our Memorial Day weekend to offer apologies to enemy War dead just to put a little extra insult to the American public.. as opposed to Obama being here one Memorial Day honoring OUR war dead
You reference the Pulitzer-winning book I was about to mention in regard to the Axis atomic program. Neither the Germans nor Japanese were anywhere close to constructing a fissionable bomb package and these efforts were the first thing Allied investigators sought to learn about when these enemies surrendered.
The Germans intended their atomic program effort based at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute to serve as a means of Naval propulsion or energy production; for a fissionable bomb they knew enough to perform the necessary theoretical calculations for the time and materials they’d need. They did the math, realized it was utterly hopeless, and gave up. All they had to show for themselves after the surrender of the Third Reich was an experimental nuclear pile which didn’t even meet pre-war achievements at the University of Chicago or UC Berkeley which were published in detail in science journals. Also, during the course of the war British MI-6 was doing heroic work in savaging the Nazi atomic fission program’s materiel resource accumulation. The Germans themselves did the most damage to their program by exiling all the top nuclear physicists from the Reich because they were non-Aryan: Fermi, Slizard, Meitner, Einstein, etc.
The Japanese effort was ultimately erased by the firebombing of Tokyo, but what evidence Allied investigators found in the rubble of Tokyo University amounted little more than an undergraduate’s chemistry set. Pre-war, they weren’t even in possession of a single gram of Radium in the manner that Marie Curie’s experiments required.
The Japanese physicists had endless trouble with the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army who saw the fission program as a silly diversion of budgetary capital and regarded the physicists in the program as a bunch of college eggheads who were unable to articulate any meaningful benefit in their research to the war effort. It hardly mattered since the Allied investigators realized the Japanese physicists were completely barking up the wrong tree in even constructing a functioning cyclotron for the Uranium separation method — another openly documented pre-war achievement journaled in science bulletins from Western nations. When the war ended, there were only one or two junior atomic physicists left alive in Japan to account to Allied investigators of their progress.
Neither the Germans or Japanese were going to possess an atomic bomb unless one was dropped on them by the Allies.
Damn straight.
Eventually. Yes.
External enemies are another focus of hatred for a regime.
And a place to get rid of troublesome internal potential rivals.
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