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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This is true- Hitler sent them technology and supplies in secret sub shipments
You can bet your sweet a$$ they wouldn’t have just used 2.
There have been news stories in the past that the Nazi’s and Japanese were not even close to making a working atomic bomb. They didn’t have enough of the correct materials to make one and their plans for assembling a working atomic bomb were also iffy.
They would have killed as many Americans as they possibly could have.
Everything I have read suggests the same. They never got close.
While that may be true, it is a moot point. By 1945, having lost control of the air space and the seas, Japan lacked the ability to attack with such a weapon.
In historical retrospect, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was the best thing that ever happened to the Japanese people.
Had seen this a few days ago. Tuned in Rush to hear his commentary on the Obama visit, and I guess this missed his “ stack” as nary a word about it.
Funny how this is ignored , and not counted as part of the reason we the US, would seek to protect our citizenry from Pearl Harbor X 200 if they had a chance.
They utilized suicide bombers , so not out of the realm of one of them going to the next life after wiping out a major city.
At the time, it was the right thing to do.
bammy apologized on Memorial Day weekend. He doesn’t deserve to be president.
If Rush reads American Thinker, he might talk about it on Monday on his program.
One of the things that spurred the US scientists was intelligence that they were in a race with the Germans. When the war ended, they were stunned to see how far the Germans were from anything useful, barely past the theoretical stuff. And the Japanese were way behind the Germans. Some of them felt they’d been lied to.
And if Russia had an atomic weapon, would there be no doubt they would have used it on Germany?
Well until you actually took over Japan and Germany and looked at their labs and papers, you couldn’t be sure they didn’t have a valid atomic bomb program.
If we could do it, there was no reason, given enough time, they couldn’t do it. You couldn’t take the chance of discounting it.
They certainly would have dropped on Berlin leaving themselves other German cities for rape and plunder.
You can bet if they had possessed one in 1941, they sure as hell would have used it. Why wouldn’t you use the most powerful weapon you have?
They did. The Japanese developed a shallow running torpedo that worked in Pearl Harbor. I believe at the time, the U.S. thought that Pearl Harbor was too shallow for air dropped torpedo’s to work.
Yikes! I knew that the Germans had a nuclear program,one which was described as far advanced.Didn’t know about the Japanese though.Perhaps it was a cooperative effort.
Most advanced countries were tinkering with radioactive materials at the time. That didn’t mean they were even close to making a working atomic bomb, however.
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