Posted on 05/28/2016 9:42:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
In all the press about Obama visiting Hiroshima, Japan, where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on its enemy in 1945, not one word has surfaced about the fact that the Japanese were, at the same time, working on their own atomic bomb, and would have used it on Americans had they been able. Nor has anything been said about the fact that they were much closer to making an atomic bomb than most Americans know.
The Japanese had begun a program to develop a “uranium” bomb even before the sneak attacked on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, killing some 2000 Americans and starting war with America. They had top scientists working on their atomic bomb, including a future Nobel-prize winner, Hideki Yukawa. Over the course of the war they spent millions on the program, hunting uranium, building crucial separators, designing a workable bomb, and elevating their program to a top priority at the end of the war as they frantically sought “miracle” weapons with which to turn the tide going against them. Had America not used its atomic bombs and instead invaded the Japanese mainland, the Japanese were planning to use atomic weapons on the invasion fleet, which certainly would have been devastating. Kamikazis had been bad enough. Imagine if they had been armed with nuclear weapons.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The “Bomb” book is one of my all time favorites I had to read when home schooled. I must have read it several times and each time I learn something new. Now, I bet I can go to Home Depot and pick up the stuff I need to ......
https://www.amazon.com/How-War-was-Won-Cambridge-ebook/dp/B00VAOVM2A?ie=UTF8&qid=1464461696&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1
I know a Freeper who is slowly posting articles on the Okinawa campaign at the Chicago Boyz blog which are veering to a conclusion that the Japanese out-tech'ed the US Navy in that battle.
The USN never realized how the Japanese were breaking its IFF codes and monitoring American ground-based fighter-control radio traffic to get in surprise attacks on American ships. The Japanese also used long-range radar surveillance aircraft to the same purpose as well as to vector mass Kamikaze attacks.
They even had secret underwater cable communications between Okinawa and Kyushu which the US Marines did not break up until late in the Okinawa campaign.
Plus the Japanese Navy and Army cooperated quite effectively in the Okinawa campaign while US Navy parochialism and inter-service rivalry with the US Army (Navy refused to cooperate with the Army, and particularly with the Army Air Force) cost us thousands of lives and dozens of ships.
Japan's problem here was very limited engineering & construction resources. Their science and tech development was very high level.
They concealed this from American interrogators after the war, though some of this was due to the reluctance of US Navy interrogators to delve into embarrassing details concerning Okinawa.
There was a story about this on The History Channel, back when The History Channel actually had history.
Obama also ignores the fact that the USA is the only country or empire in the history of the world to have the world at its feet and not take it.
All developed countries that could be a threat to us were exhausted and running out of fuel and weapons by 1945. We could have taken whatever land or treasure we desired.
Instead we loan them money to rebuild.
Yeah, we suck.
The attached article mentioned that. At the time, the Japanese concentrated all industrialization in North Korea, and South Korea was largely agrarian farmland. The Soviets grabbed factories and contents, and shipped them home, including the captured Japanese scientists.
Just think, we get to to enjoy another round of Hiroshima/a-bomb articles in another two months!
More to the point. They were making chemical bombs after experiementing on US POWs. I have seen the picture of depleted Iris Of PoWs after being exposed in military books.
Also Unit 731 was that of biological arsenal being built to destroy the Us, using Chinese peasants of all ages and sex for experiment
The BS from the totally ignorant.
Where are the links?
There are rumors also that the Japanese had a test detonation in (occupied Korea) just days before the Hiroshima reality knock...
But I wouldn't consider it hard news.
What the hell you talking about?..I heard Rush roast Obama at length over his Hiroshima visit
Yes, he roasted Obama. i was referencing his never mentioning anything about the Japanese researching an atomic weapon of their own. I would think that he or his researchers would at least be aware of the American Thinker article, like many of us on FR .
Doesn't matter, ultimately -- the US finished first, and was one thousand percent justified in dropping both those nukes on Japan. Imagine -- there are people STUPID enough to think that Japan was ready to surrender without our having to use those bombs, when, number one it took A SECOND ONE to convince them, and number two, conventional firebombing had already turned over forty Japanese cities to ash prior to the Hiroshima drop. Thanks Kaslin.
Thanks for the link!
The Japanese Atomic research also their biological germ warfare research and use of it in China and the fact the Army tried to prevent the emperor from surrendering are all common knowledge I don’t know if he really needed to go into it
Both Germany and Japan had nuclear programs. If they had the bomb, they would have used it.
5.56mm
Americans were guilty of intellectual property theft! < /s >
Dirty bombs are a farce. Only effect is fear and the hassle of decon. Big deal.
I can argue that both ways. Buttressing your point is the fact that altho the US had little military inventory in 1941, that was in a real sense a half truth. In reality, ever since the May 1940 Fall of France the US had been deeply concerned about the war in Europe, and fearful of the effects any fall of Britain (with its famous navy) could have on US security. Consequently the US had been gearing up for military production for a year and a half at the time of Pearl Harbor. That included the well-known infusion of technology from Britain (RADAR, jet engines, and more, including the plans for the Merlin engine) and the manufacture of long-lead-time items like machine tool inventory and factory buildings.At the moment Hitler was declaring war on the US, US military inventory was slim, because the US had been channeling as much military aid is it could muster to Britain. But US military production was just beginning to take off, and over the course of the war it dwarfed that of Germany and Japan.
But if I wanted to argue against the inevitability of US victory, I could point out that the Me 262 jet aircraft would have been available to the Luftwaffe much earlier with more foresight by Goering and Hitler. And as it was, Eisenhower would hardly agreed with the inevitable victory thesis on D-Day, when he carried around a letter announcing the failure of the invasion and taking full responsibility for that failure. It was a close-run thing.
In addition, Churchill worried continually about the possibility that the Germans might tumble to the fact of “Magic.” Without “magic,” the allies would have had a much harder time of it.
What I meant was, if Europe had fallen to Hitler and we had to retreat , it would have only been momentarily. There was no way Hitler could have attacked the USA and in short order, Berlin would have been in ruins, just like Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
They wanted trouble; they got some.
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