[cripplecreek]

If you think about it, a Japanese nuke wouldn’t have had the same effect on us as ours had on them.

It would have angered us even more and likely led to us putting even more people into the fight.

[Zathras]

It never got very far but they were considering building a dirty bomb.
Germany got a bit farther.

[SpaceBar]

China has the bomb and the means to deliver them.
Their military expands everyday and the US is broke.
Liberalism, pacifism, and the introspective blame-game runs our foreign policy.
History has a peculiar tendency to repeat itself.

[SkyDancer]

Read the book: The Making Of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition is out. In the book according to those people who were there, Germany and Japan had nothing even close. You had more atomic material in an old Gilbert's Atom Science kit for kids.

Germany had a cast iron kettle with some nuclear product imersed in a three foot pit of heavy water. That was it. Japan's ruling council wouldn't let the atomic researchers have some electronic equipment need for the war effort. It took General Grove to turn the US into a giant bomb making factory that produced two weapons. One a fission bomb and the other a fusion bomb. Plus the one used at Trinity.

It's all in the well researched book and a great read.

Was part of my home schooling reading list.

[Sergio]

Home viewing bookmark.

[DiogenesLamp]

Documents recently discovered and Japanese scientist acknowledge that Japan had a nuclear weapons program in WW2. The Japanese had made big strides toward creating their own atomic bomb.

This information is covered in the books "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", and "Dark Sun, the Making of the Hydrogen bomb" both by Richard Rhodes.

The Japanese program wasn't going anywhere. If I recall correctly, they were trying to use a diffusion process for isotope separation and they were completely unaware of certain peculiar attributes of these particular compounds. (Uranium Hexafloride, I think.)

The enrichment device wasn't working at all, and the Japanese scientists were getting very worried about their lack of Progress. (One did not disappoint the Emperor in those days.)

Fortunately for them, a mysterious fire somehow occurred and burned the whole apparatus to the ground.

I used to have a Fire Marshall friend. He used to tell me "The only buildings that burn, are the ones that need to burn. "

In any case, the Japanese bomb was never a threat, and neither was the German effort. There is some evidence to indicate that Werner Heisenberg was either foot dragging or deliberately sabotaging the German effort.

We had that weapon all to ourselves except for the spies in our government shipping our research over to the Soviets.

Klaus Fuchs should have been shot.

[central_va]

[Traveler59]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[dfwgator]

Thank God for the bomb.