Brooke Gunning: The Japanese atomic bomb

Examiner.com ^ | August 11, 2006 | Brooke Gunning

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

ping for future.

[DB]

Never heard that story quite like that before.

[Cementjungle]

Never heard that story quite like that before.

Which part do you mean?

[Armigerous]

well my information is that the Japs already had a working reactor up and running somewhere on the Korean peninsula running under the direction of one Dr. Suzuki...and the plan called for them to hide their bomb on board a scuttled Japanese warship on the southern coast and to detonate it while the US 7th Fleet was anchored there and while troop landings were in progress.....

[Cementjungle]

well my information is that the Japs already had a working reactor up and running somewhere on the Korean peninsula running under the direction of one Dr. Suzuki...and the plan called for them to hide their bomb on board a scuttled Japanese warship on the southern coast and to detonate it while the US 7th Fleet was anchored there and while troop landings were in progress.....

Maybe earlier shipments had already made it through to Japan?

[DB]

That the Japanese actually had a date for a nuclear attack.

I knew there was a German sub planning on delivering heavy water but not substantial quantities of weapons grade uranium.

I question whether that is true.

[Cementjungle]

"On 16 April, 1945 she left Norway and was enroute to Japan with extremely important cargo (drawings, a Me-262 jet fighter in crates and 550kg of uranium ore, several high ranking German experts on various technologies and 2 Japanese officers) when Kptlt. Fehler, after hearing the cease-fire orders on May 4, 1945, decided to head for the USA and surrender.
Per tradition the Japanese men took their own life via sleeping pills rather than being captured." LINK

[Armigerous]

...that is my understanding

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The History Channel had this all. They added that the capture of the German submarine was even in the papers, but the Japanese high command thought it was misinformation. Until the surrender they were still waiting for the sub and it's cargo to arrive.

They had a plan to use the radioactive material for a dirty bomb attack on San Francisco, using their I-400 class submarine-aircraft carriers. I think the projected date was sometime in Sept 1945.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

What were the places where uranium was mined back then? For example, the United Kingdom mined their uranium from Canada. Did the Japanese have to get the uranium from Germany?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

What were the places where uranium was mined back then? For example, the United Kingdom mined their uranium from Canada. Did the Japanese have to get the uranium from the Nazis?

[Berlin_Freeper]

And let's not forget the Japanese were testing biological and chemical warfare against US prisoners of war.

The Japs were prepared to use atomic, chemical, biological, suicide attacks and God knows what else...

They were just begging for us to drop two atomic bombs on their cities that were converted from civilian urban centers to vast war machine factories where people even made military parts in their homes that would be collected by wagons for assembly at the plants.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Japs Japanese....

Bad connotations.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I prefer to leave it in the full context, thank you...

"The Japs were prepared to use atomic, chemical, biological, suicide attacks and God knows what else..."

[Armigerous]

I believe they got there uranium from pitchblende ore mined in Czechoslovakia or one of their captive countries....could be wrong about it being Czech....

[hershey]

PC apologists won't like this article.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The German uranium originally came from the exact same place ours did, Katanga a province of the Belgian Congo. Large quantities of uranium from the Congo were shipped to Belgium and were captured by the Germans when they overran it in 1940. In 1945 the Soviets found a great quantity of this remaining Belgium uranium hidden in Berlin and shipped it back to Russia. In 1945 and after, most Eastern block uranium was mined in East Germany.

We also got ours for the Manhattan Project from the same mines.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

For the information on where World War 2 Japan got its uranium, much appreciated.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

See comment 19.

Odd that the United States would get its ore from Africa when it was being mined in Canada.