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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
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Subject: Re: Re: (use of atomic bomb)
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 13:35:21 EDT
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> 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??
> 

Yes, I saw the same documentary (starring Walter K.!).  As I recall, the
Japanese had two sites in Japan and one in Korea where they were working
on the bomb.  Most of the US scientists involved in our research program
and who went to Japan after the war to check things out believe that the
Japanese were nowhere close to successfully building the deadly device.
Chalk one up for Yankee (and runaway German scientist) ingenuity.

However, there is some evidence that the site in Korea, which was not
visited (but which was overrun in the Korean Conflict), was much closer
to developing a working bomb.  There's one US journalist who has written
a book on the subject who is pushing this view.  My view corresponds to
that sometimes heard at UW-Madison football games: ``It just doesn't
matter!''.  What matters is the current horrendous situation, in which it
will be lucky if the world makes it out alive and radiation free.

-- 
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