Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site SCIRTP.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!SCIRTP!todd
From: todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: (use of atomic bomb)
Message-ID: <318@SCIRTP.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 12:53:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: SCIRTP.318
Posted: Thu Aug 15 12:53:27 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:06:20 EDT
References: <3268@drutx.UUCP> <10615@rochester.UUCP> <1733@mnetor.UUCP> <344@persci.UUCP>
Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC
Lines: 9

> A Question: A co-worker of mine was watching a program on "Hiroshima: 40 Years
> After" (or something like that), and it was mentioned on this program that
> the Japanese were working on the Bomb. Can anybody enlighten us on this??
> 
I don't know the physics behind it, but apparently the Japanese
approach to the bomb included several fundamental bad assumptions
and were very far from constructing a detonatable nuclear device.

Any physicists care to explain?