Posted on 04/05/2011 7:20:55 PM PDT by SteveH
Actual Test Was Success
Japan developed and successfully tested an atomic bomb three days prior to the end of the war.
She destroyed unfinished atomic bombs, secret papers and her atomic bomb plans only hours before the advance units of the Russian Army moved into Konan, Korea, site of the project.
Japanese scientists who developed the bomb are now in Moscow, prisoners of the Russians. They were tortured by their captors seeking atomic "know-how."
The Konan area is under rigid Russian control. They permit no American to visit the area. Once, even after the war, an American B-29 Superfortress en route to Konan was shot down by four Russian Yak fighters from nearby Hammung Airfield.
I learned this information from a Japanese officer, who said he was in charge of counter intelligence at the Konan project before the fall of Japan. He gave names, dates, facts and figures on the Japanese atomic project, which I submitted to United States Army Intelligence in Seoul. The War Department is withholding much of the information. To protect the man that told me this story, and at the request of the Army, he is here given a pseudonym, Capt. Tsetusuo Wakabayashi.
The story may throw light on Stalin's recent statement that America will not long have a monopoly on atomic weapons.
(Excerpt) Read more at reformation.org ...
Yeah. I think this article would have been better posted last Friday.
And yet the Rerum Novarum also states that “Among the many and grave duties of rulers who would do their best for the people, the first and chief is to act with strict justice - with that justice which is called distributive - toward each and every class alike.”
...but perhaps discussion of Papal Encyclicals in this thread is a bit OT though... :-)
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Japan’s effort:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapon_program
The sole research building was fire bombed on April 13, 1945 by B-29s over Tokyo. Totally destroyed their little enrichment project. Basically, it was nothing at all. No chance of creating a bomb. They didn’t have the capabiities like they do now.
Interesting history story but very hard to believe at this point. USSR stole the bomb plans from the USA.
Well, one can easily argue that the Nazis lost because of their hatred of the Jews. From Einstein to Oppenheimer. The Manhattan Project was distinctly, almost uniquely, a Jewish endeavor.
Thanks. That might be why I hadn’t heard of it before.
You could make that argument, but they were all trained in German institutions, and Hitler supposedly didn’t give attention to atomic weapons development because he considered it inhumane, even with all the other things he did.
I has been proven, time after time, that a new invention is not something that one human figures out. People all over the globe conceive of these new inventions at the same time, and it is only a very, very few who pursue that dream and make it a reality.
It is my silly *ss opinion that enlargement of knowledge/new inventions/new ideas are due to gamma ray radiation from space.
Of course the gamma rays could be having just the opposite effect, for all I know.
“The Invasion of Okinawa is what made the atomic bombing of Japan inevitable.”
Yes, that’s the argument I’m familiar with the longest, that it in reality saved many more lives than if an invasion of the main islands of Japan had to be made.
See.... somebody always has to go and spoil the party with actual facts.
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Y’all are no fun. :-)
It was the Okinawa that made American war-planners take notice. The fanaticism of Imperial Japanese troops was well-known. And taking Saipan was brutal. But Okinawa was something that blew their minds.
Seems they all wanted the same thing.
Just to be left alone. To have an end to war.
Haigerloch is a very picturesque little town, in the valleys just east of the Black Forest. A part of it is high on a hill, the rest down in the valley on the river.
At the base of the hill, there’s an old wine cellar that was fashioned out of a cave some time in the Middle Ages.
Late in the European war, when the German nuclear scientists had to vacate Berlin, they sought refuge in the western part of the country; part of their thinking was that they’d rather be captured by the Americans, English, and French, than the Russians.
So that cave in Haigerloch was the locus of their final reactor experiments. When the Alsos project scientists came through, they found the experimenters’ stash of Uranium buried not far away. The scientists too. (Not buried, mind you!)
The reactor had not yet reached criticality, by the way, and they were quite far from making a bomb.
I looked high and low for the roll of film I took there. It also held some shots of the headwaters of the Danube (actually, the Breg river). I think it was the only roll lost out of the 50 or so my ladyfriend and I took in Germany that year.
We can thank the heroes of Tel mark for risking their lives to stop the Germans from transporting the heavy water. I always wondered how factual that movie was.
Definitely some interesting stuff to read for later !
*chuckle* Distributive justice isn’t state-distributed income. It means that the justice itself is distributive, rather than reserved for the powerful. Rerum Novarum is unequivocable that one’s property is his own, and the state would be condemned were it to seize that property, even for the welfare of its citizens. Further, the owner of that property is entitled to the further wealth which prudent use of the property should bring.
The notion of “social justice” is found only in the fact that it is immoral (and nowhere does Rerum Novarum advocate the use of governmental force to coerce economic morality, nor to define what constitutes a “living wage”) to deprive a worker of a just pay.
How regimented is Rerum Novarum towards a free market? The only specific means that it enumerates for denying someone a just pay are illegal withholding and “the importation of labor” which it sees as depressing the labor market and which it calls “a crime which cries out to the Heavens for vengeance.” (Compare to the child-rapist protector, former slave ranch operator and paganism promoter Cardinal Mahony.)
Do you get the economic presumption to be inferred, that market-distorting excessive Immigration is necessary for an employer to contract for unfair wages. And this is not accessible only through inference: a fair wage is defined by what the market can support!
IOW, yes, the Church holds that people who work hard should get paid enough to provide for their basic necessities. Who could argue against that? But the Church explicitly denies the state the authority to forcibly redistribute wealth, rather only calls for reasonable immigration limitations so as to permit the market to force just distribution of wealth. This HAS to be regarded as all the more amazing, since, well, there weren’t to many people complaining about excessive PROTESTANT immigration very much.
Japan did have a nuclear program, but after Hiroshima were convinced that U235 was so hard to separate, their physicists reported it was a bad miracle, that it would take another year to make another bomb like that. The Nagasaki bomb showed reaction products from Plutonium which they knew was made from Plentiful U238, and any number could be made quickly. MAGIC decrypts gave insight into that level of strategic thinking, and also told us that they would claim their surrender was largely due to USSR entry, to try to deny US benefit of the bomb.
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