Posted on 08/20/2015 5:17:01 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
In August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in human history.
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bfl, thanks!
Ain’t buyin’ it. I know of the Nazi work in that direction, but they had a ways to go.
But the Japanese had the tech they had because of their men who had studied in the US. That may have given them the Zero, but their own Manhattan project? No way.
There were no Jews in Japan. They had what they had by playing catch up with western civilization. A nuclear program was not in their near future.
Heh, Howard Hughes actually developed the Zero’s prototype, which the U.S. military scoffed at, just like the Christie tank chassis, which went on to become the T-34.
There’s a reason they call it the Revisionist History Channel.
BTW, the “sweet spot” was two bombs. We needed to drop two to show that the first bomb was not a “one off”.
A third bomb would have been a ways off though, obviously, we eventually had more than three bombs. ;-)
http://www.warbirdforum.com/third.htm
Japan was a primitive society in the 1930s. It’s unlikely they knew much about atomic energy or the bomb.
Maybe they got the technology from Aliens.
There’s a reason they call it the Revisionist History Channel.
Seriously. :-D
Japan was a primitive society in the 1930s. It’s unlikely they knew much about atomic energy or the bomb.
I suppose if a person has no understanding of history, a video like this might make sense. That is a shame.
The North Korean nuclear facility is actually built on the site of old Japanese facility. That the Japanese were working on an “A” Bomb and were farther along in developing one is not much of a secret. I had not seen that they had actually tested one.
is HISTORYYYYYY!!!!
The NK nuke was purchased from a certain Pakistani and has little to do with anything the Japanese did.
Debunked.
The alleged explosion was not noticed by the thousands of people, including POWs and spies, within a few miles of the Jap atomic bomb site. Probably disinformation to account for the Soviets acquiring atomic info so quickly (actually due to their spies in the American program).
But Virginia’s daddy said that if we see it in The Sun, it’s so...
“That may have given them the Zero, but their own Manhattan project? No way...A nuclear program was not in their near future.”
In fact, there were TWO Japanese atomic bomb weapons programs underway during WWII, one conducted by the Army and another conducted by the Navy. The Army Ni-Go project was halted by a B-29 bombing raid and the capture of a German U-boat ferrying German enriched Uranium. The Navy F-Go project may have completed a test device and detonated it on 12 August 1945. Japanese nuclear physicists were pre-war collaborators with Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, and other world class nuclear physicists around the world. Their first cyclotron for nuclear physics research was purchased from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Nishina established the Riken Institute in part to conduct world class nuclear physics reseach, and he co-authored the Klein-Nishina formula.
The F-Go project also had the advantage of one of the world’s largest industrial complexes and uranium mines located in northern Korea. The hydroelectric power provided by the nearby reservoirs in the Korean mountains rivaled hydroelectric power sources used by the Manhattan Project in the United States.
Bottomline, the documented reality of the Japanese atomic bomb projects cannot be dismissed.
Very interesting..!
My word.
This is just kookery.
"The Japanese program to develop nuclear weapons was conducted during World War II. Like the German nuclear weapons program, it suffered from an array of problems, and was ultimately unable to progress beyond the laboratory stage before the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese surrender in August 1945.
“A third bomb would have been a ways off though”
Wrong, the third U.S. atomic bomb was scheduled to be dropped on Japan on 20 August 1945 at the latest. The Fat Man bomb assembly was already present with the 509th Composite Group on Tinian. Final components were flown to Moffet Field enroute to Tinian when the ferrying mission was canceled due to the Japanese surrender. The plutonium core was completed on 13 August 1945, and it had just been signed out for transport from Los Alamos to Tinian when the Japanese surrender on 14 August 1945 caused the trip to be canceled and the core to be returned to the custody of Los Alamos. Beginning in September three more Fat Man atomic bombs were to be deployed with each one becoming available ten days apart. In October, the number of Fat Man bombs available were to increase each month from 5 or 6 to 8 or more per month in December 1945.
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