[LS]

It may have been reported, but Japan was nowhere close to making a bomb. Germany was somewhat closer, but abandoned the program in 1942, when Hitler decided to throw all his resources at the USSR. However, our intelligence still thought a German bomb (but never a Japanese bomb) was a likelihood and had assassination teams out as late as 1944 to kill Werner Heisenberg.

[StormPrepper]

It may have been reported, but Japan was nowhere close to making a bomb. Germany was somewhat closer, but abandoned the program in 1942, when Hitler decided to throw all his resources at the USSR. However, our intelligence still thought a German bomb (but never a Japanese bomb) was a likelihood and had assassination teams out as late as 1944 to kill Werner Heisenberg.

According to the documentary, the Japanese moved all their research and development activities to Korea after a B29 raid destroyed their lab in Tokyo.

They also say there was a witness to a Japanese bomb test, if that was true, they had a working prototype.

Germany sent Japan 1000lbs of Uranium by submarine. However, as the sub was on it's way, Germany surrendered and Admiral Doenitz ordered all forces to surrender to the nearest allied forces. The sub surrendered and never made it to Japan. However, Japan found a source of Uranium in Korea.

This adds fuel to the cause that the US not only was justified in dropping the two atomic bombs, if they hadn't the eventual outcome would have been catastrophic.