[cassiusking]

This is true- Hitler sent them technology and supplies in secret sub shipments

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

You can bet your sweet a$$ they wouldn’t have just used 2.

[mkjessup]

American Thinker is way behind the curve, this isn't a new story, in fact a documentary was released on the Japanese Atomic Bomb project more than 2 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iE-0tRGjy8

It's a good video.

[r_barton]

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.

[samtheman]

They would have killed as many Americans as they possibly could have.

[Thibodeaux]

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.

[patriotspride]

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.

[I want the USA back]

At the time, it was the right thing to do.

bammy apologized on Memorial Day weekend. He doesn’t deserve to be president.

[eastforker]

And if Russia had an atomic weapon, would there be no doubt they would have used it on Germany?

[D_Idaho]

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?

[Gay State Conservative]

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.

[Fiji Hill]

For years, a story has been going around that Japan actually tested a nuclear device in what is now North Korea in August, 1945.

[AmusedBystander]

Boo freaking Hoo! Lots more were killed with conventional weapons. Does it really matter if 100,000 die all at once or many more over the course of conventional bombing?

They started it and we finished it. End of story.

[r_barton]

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.

[central_va]

Building the Atlantic wall and the "vengeance" weapon program bankrupted the Third Reich both momentarily and caused a brain drain. There was no brain power left for the "bomb" development.

V-2 was a hell of a missile though.

[Sacajaweau]

One of my clients was involved in all this. He said they were within weeks of beating us.

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.

[PIF]

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.

[Sacajaweau]

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_einstein_letter.htm

[SkyDancer]

Neither Germany nor Japan were anywhere close to making an atomic bomb. Read: "The Making Of The Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes.

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.

[fella]

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.