[metmom]

I remember the reason they gave for it being built was mining also but it was just a cover. Boy do I wish that we could get JUST a couple cable channels instead of buying the whole package.

There was also another special that I'm sure was on the History Channel about the nuclear race and Japan and Germany's collusion to nuke the US in LA or San Francisco just before Hiroshima. Apparently, it was the info that the government uncovered that was what really prompted the decision to use the bombs. IIRC, Japan had already set a date for the bombing and it was just 3-6 weeks after the dates that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. I wonder how many other times we've been close to this.

[shooter223]

fairly common knowlege that Germany & Japan were working on nuke bombs but I don't recall ever hearing that they got close to having one that worked

[spectre]

Japan never got past the "we think a nuclear weapon is possible" stage before WW2 ended. They had neither the resources or industrial capacity to even begin basic research.

Germany had begun research but never was able to achieve a chain reaction as their only atomic laboratory in Berlin was bombed and destroyed in 1943.

They ceased development in 1944.

[PAR35]

Japan had already set a date for the bombing

Japan wasn't that close to producing a bomb.

[okie01]

There was also another special that I'm sure was on the History Channel about the nuclear race and Japan and Germany's collusion to nuke the US in LA or San Francisco just before Hiroshima.

Not likely. The Japanese and Germans both had nuclear projects, but neither was close to anything resembling a bomb.

[null and void]

Boy do I wish that we could get JUST a couple cable channels instead of buying the whole package.

Nonsense!

That would defund CNN and ESPN!