How many people know Japan exploded their atomic bomb 6 days after Hiroshima?

Question

I just watched a sat. TV show with Jap scientists that said Japan exploded their atomic bomb 6 days after Hiroshima. The scientists had documents showing the research and developement of their atomic bomb. It was exploded off the coast some Japanese controlled country near Japan.

Answer 1

I never heard that! What show was it on?

Answer 2

The TV show you saw is probably based on the following:

Quoting from the source, below:
The Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy were in a race to be the first to develop the Japanese atomic bomb. Both of these research and development programs and a world renowned Japanese physicist, Dr. Nishina, relied upon uranium mines and hydroelectric power facilities in Korea to provide the necessary infrastructure for their projects. These are some of the same facilities North Korea uses for its own nuclear weapons research and development in the present day.

Although conventional reports claim the Japanese nuclear weapons research was primitive and not close to completing an atomic bomb, there are other reports that dispute such claims. A contemporary reporter from the Atlanta Constitution interviewed a Japanese officer who reported he witnessed a Japanese test of its first atomic bomb off the coast of Korea at the end of the war while he was the project's security officer. One book author has traced the American post-war investigations of the Japanese nuclear research, and he reports on evidence indicating the Japanese were no more than a matter of weeks or a few months behind the Americans in producing their own atomic bombs for use against the Allies. Such reports are vigorously denied and disputed by other authorities.
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Please! Don't let the name of the site bother you.

Answer 3

According to some sources, six days after Hiroshima, an atomic bomb was dropped by the US on the Nippon Oil Refinery at Tsuchizaki near Akita, 300 miles north of Tokyo on the West Coast of Japan.

The History Channel show was about how the Japanese may have detonated a nuclear device just two days before surrender on a small island 20 miles off the Korean coast.

The sobering conclusion is that Japan may have been just weeks behind the US in the race for the bomb.

Apparently Akio Morito, the late head of Sony, was on the team working on the atomic bomb. He references it in his autobiography.

Answer 4

It's no secret that Japan was planning an attack on the US, with a weapon similar to our own atomic bombs. Had the war lasted any longer, the US would have been in great jeopardy.

Most of this information has been declassified and is available for anyone to see and read about.

For those who continue to criticize the US for its use of atomic power on Japan, think again. We could have just as easily been the victim rather than perpetrator, with the use of the A-bomb.

Answer 5

oh brother. Japan at that time was the most zenophobic, imperialistic country the world had seen in centuries. If they had the Bomb, they would have used it. They seemed prepared to fight to the last man. Casualty estimates to take Japan were staggering. When the emporer of Japan, Hirohito, decided to make a public address to tell his country that surrender was the only noble solution to the war, there was a coup attempt to stop him and keep the war going. The bomb would have been used if Japan had it. Don't believe everything you see on TV.

Answer 6

you crazi. 3 days after Horoshima, US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki city. That's all.
Japan didn't have that kind of technology at that moment.

your memory or the TV program is wrong.
6 days after Hiroshima, Japan government was busy in full progress to end the silly war game.

Answer 7

News to me, why on earth would they do that they had lost the war and saw the destructuion an atomic bomb could cause,, or is this another justification as to why the USA dropped the bomb first,, sounds like bull s hit to me

Answer 8

There really is truth to a lot of that. Looks like Japan did have a nuclear program during WW II, headed by two of the world's leading physicists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_atomic_program

There is debate over whether the explosion of August 12 actually took place or not.

Answer 9

How many people know that Harry S. Truman was planning to deploy 7 MORE A-bombs had Japan not surrendered? Who cares about the one that didn't kill anyone?

Answer 10

you just watched and saw that show. did you watch the show when hiroshima and nagasaki was bombed. did you see the horrow, suffering, lossses, killings, of those people.
may be a good question to hide the crimianl act by america.

Answer 11

all i know is that the US exploded multiple bombs in the pacific islands of polynesia, the once beautiful islands are still in ruins today, with lots of deformed people. the US never formally apologized or compensated.