I know that. Take the cotton out of your ears and listen. The Japanese CLAIMED TO HAVE DEVELOPED A NUCLEAR DEVICE, as I said before, it's unsubstantiated. The Japanese CLAIMED TO HAVE DEVELOPED FISSILE MATERIAL, that claim is unsubstantiated. The JAPANESE CLAIMED to have built the conventional portion of the bomb, that claim, which is the same claim, was unsubstantiated. The Japanese CLAIMED TO HAVE EXPLODED the
nuclear bomb. As I said before, the claim is unsubstantiated. A German U-boat was transporting two Japanese officers and a cargo of uranium oxide to
Japan. Three days out, the U-boat was depth charged to the surface by the
Coast Guard. The German crew was captured. The Japanese officers committed suicide and the uranium oxide was captured and used in Little Boy. It's a fact. Scientists in Germany and at Kyoto University were working on it together. Go to Wikipedia if you don't believe me.
No, the HISTORY CHANNEL, in one of it's many, many, many half assed conjecture programs pretending to be documentries threw the idea at a wall, seeing how much, if any, would stick.
The claim isn't unsubstantiated, it's total BS. Only someone with ZERO understanding the effort, materials and resources required to create a nuclear device AND with ZERO knowlege of the Japanese situation regarding supply beginning in mid-1944 would give it the slightest consideration.
The Japanese, Germans, Italians, Soviets (and for all I know Brazilians) had a program in addition the the Canadian/UK/US Manhattan effort. Except for the Soviet program, which succeeded thanks to some excellent NKVD/GRU agent penetrations of Manhattan, ever bore fruit. The Japanese program was actually better off than the German program, which had made a basic error and was chasing the wrong rabbit, but it was so far from success that, even had Japan not been defeated in summer of '45, it would not have produced a working weapon until the USN had
Polaris SSBM.
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