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Lithos

(26,403 posts) Sat Jun 7, 2014, 08:55 PM Jun 2014

German and Japanese A-bomb development on WW II

https://sites.google.com/site/naziabomb/

https://sites.google.com/site/naziabomb/home/japan-s-a-bomb-project

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German and Japanese A-bomb development on WW II (Original Post) Lithos Jun 2014 OP

I read Wilcox's book back when it was first published ... eppur_se_muova Jun 2014 #1

Interesting Al Carroll Jun 2014 #2

eppur_se_muova

(36,247 posts)

1. I read Wilcox's book back when it was first published ...

Reply to Lithos (Original post)

Sun Jun 8, 2014, 09:53 AM

Jun 2014

it would certainly have a political impact in Japan if the Japanese A-bomb projects were better known.

Al Carroll

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2. Interesting

Reply to Lithos (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 10:43 PM

Jun 2014

Most US govt officials at the same made the racist assumption that Japan was too primitive to have a chance at developing the a bomb.

Germany by contrast never got very far in their efforts, and when Manhattan project scientists realized that it was part of the reason many opposed using the a bomb on Japan.

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