An article in Physics Today said their program was to develop a "genzai bakudan" (atomic bomb) and started about the same time as our Manhattan Proj. After the surrender the Army found 5 cyclotrons, smashed them and dumped them into Tokyo Harbor. Just look up the word "Konan" on the net. There is a lot of argument as to if they managed to actually detonate the bomb. The German transport sub U-234 (lol) that surrendered to us was carrying enriched uranium to Japan when it surrendered. This was enough to make about 1/5 of a bomb or make the bomb the Japanese had more potent. Even the North Koreans admit that there was a nuke blast in their country at the end of WWII. (KCNA, Pyongyang, August 8, 2006) They say the Tokyo Shimbun had disclosed that the Japanese Army had tested an A-bomb in the sea off Hungnam off the east coast of North Korea just before the end of WWII. Keep looking and you will find the information. Japan tries to downplay all of this. Wonder if they'll go nuke now.
2006-11-28
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