Aside from the disputed detonation of their test device in 1945,no one seems to know that their I 401 class sub could easily snorkel its way to SF or LA without refueling or surfacing. http://www.combinedfleet.com/I-401.htm will describe this aircraft-carrying sub whose empty, three-bomber hangar would have housed their massive, crude nuke. Orig mission was to bomb SF with its three planes and "dirty bombs" in retaliation for the Tokyo fire raids. After their successful a-bomb test in North Korea, the I 401 was considered for a suicide bomb delivery vehicle. Look up SENSUIKAN HIJMS I 401:Tabular record of movement. We were pretty shocked at what this largest sub in the world could do. Since the Russians over ran the Hungnam facility it's not possible the Japanese could have produced a second bomb for the I 401 mission to destroy SF.They needed 6 months to build another with North Korean Uranium It would have been "messy" if they'd have used their test device straight away in SF Harbor!
2007-08-06 03:40:37 · 5 answers · asked by Don S 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
They didn't have to deliver it. If we invaded the mainland they could use it as a nuclear landmine. According to thier story they exploded it off the coast of North Korea. Theat mean they delivered it there.
2007-08-06 03:49:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All of this unsubstantiated evidence, coupled with the fact that they would have used it if they had it leads me to dis believe. You are saying that a country willing to send its pilots to there death for the sake of damging a ship were unwilling to deal with the "mess" of using this device at Pearl Harbor?? The whole thing makes no sense. I dont doubt that they were working on it, but far away from having anything usable...
2007-08-06 03:46:16 · answer #2 · answered by this_takes_awhile 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, a Japanese sub could potentially make it to the west coast -- if it wasn't sunk or stopped first.
But I have yet to see evidence that Japan's nuclear program (even if they had one at all) was advanced enough by July 1945 to produce a working warhead to deploy.
Do you have any verifiable source that indicates their nuclear program had reached that level of sophisitication?
2007-08-06 03:44:20 · answer #3 · answered by coragryph 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
why wont you let a 60 year old war be done... the Japanese are not our enemies and I feel safe with them doing what ever they want let them have a great economy they aren’t human rights violators and they are not aggressive. who cares stop all this nonsense of trying to argue a dead point if they wanted to get a bomb to the US I’m sure they would of figured it out they are good at that.
You know conversations like this is what stars stupid wars when they get public and start national resentment.
The bomb was used...should it had been that’s hard to say considering i do not know all the evidence and opinions of the time...but its done.
2007-08-06 03:46:55 · answer #4 · answered by Commodevil 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
the japanese have been able to develop a-bombs since the wang dynasty in the 1300s
2007-08-06 03:46:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋