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.
Japan was a primitive society in the 1930s. It’s unlikely they knew much about atomic energy or the bomb.
“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.
Agree.
I don’t know about the relevance of “no Jews in Japan” but I agree with what you posted, that if Japan was on track at all they were still years away and far behind even the Nazis.