[B-Chan]

Thanks to Shin Takahashi for help in developing this report.

[Greg123456]

A.F. Joke?? or real?

[Red Steel]

They already have a GODzilla.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I thought Japan already had a Godlike weapon.

[thecabal]

Hmmm...were these guys involved by any chance?

[Hardraade]

And a happy and interesting April to you too :).

[Riley]

I will not be trolled today.

This has the distinct aroma of April Fool’s BS.

[9YearLurker]

What was it, fake US bonds that could be deployed along the Swiss-Italian border?

[aruanan]

CIA: Japan Tried to Develop “Godlike” Superweapon

I thought that was Yoko Ono.

[aruanan]

The report's final words tell blackly of a "subsummation of ego"

I guess this lets Barry Obama off the hook.

[Lazamataz]

April Fools.

[tlb]

In World War II there was a similar weapons program to what is described here. A BBC report on the program can be seen at the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhmnOpoGAPw

[pyx]

April 1st

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the FEAR to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday machine is terrifying and simple to understand... and completely credible and convincing.

Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*!

[muir_redwoods]

this is April fools, right

[wastoute]

Eh, WT Hell, we have our own APril Fool in the WhiteHouse.

[Rocky]

It probably works by subjecting the enemy to a debate of philosophers. Much like the Monty Python skit about famous philosophers playing in a football match.

Quantum mechanics philosophers could argue that the enemy is both dead and alive simultaneously.

The whole experience could be so mind-numbing that the enemy would die of boredom.

[Eye of Unk]

There have been novelizations many years ago of horizon wide image projectors by camouflaged aircraft combined with a broadcast systems so far beyond the even more powerful rock concerts to display images of deities or of religious nature in a foreign country.

Evey continent and culture has its historical deities of worship, whip up a program of Vishnu at night in India and you would get millions in a terrified obedient euphoria.

Imagine to voice of Allah heard for hundreds of miles with atmospheric images in the middle east.

If any country can leap ahead in technology its the somewhat isolationist Japan.

[Stevenc131]

Kinda freaks me out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hakup170As

[gogogodzilla]

Godzilla is already here.

This just looks like some fool discovered the blueprints for MechaGodzilla.

[Oztrich Boy]

Without a small feisty redheaded princess to control it, it'll end badly (even with her the ending will be iffy)