[WhiskeyX]

This day, 20 August 1945, was scheduled to be the day when the third atomic bomb was to be used to destroy the city of Sapporo, Japan in the event Japan had not yet surrendered. This third atomic bomb was another Fat Man type of atomic bomb using plutonium has the fissile explosive. However, it may be this would have been the FOURTH atomic bomb and not the third atomic bomb. According to information obtained after the end of the war, Japan was reported to have completed and tested its own atomic bomb on 12 August 1945 off the coast of Korea. The documentary, Japan's Atomic Bomb, which appeared on the History Channel describes the Japanese efforts to build and use its own atomic bombs during the Second World War.

[Smokin' Joe]

bfl, thanks!

[cuban leaf]

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.

[cuban leaf]

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

[jjotto]

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).

[ElkGroveDan]

This is just kookery.

[SkyDancer]

Read the book “The Making Of The Atomic Bomb” by Richard Rhodes. The atomic bomb that Germany and Japan were attempting to build was a pathetic undertaking. Japan never had anything close to an atom bomb and certainly we would have known about it if they did explode one off Korea.

[pabianice]

http://www.amazon.com/Bombs-Away-Hot-Harry-Turtledove/dp/0553390708/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440081363&sr=8-1&keywords=bombs+away

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the post. Very compelling. BTTT.