Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!myers From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: (use of atomic bomb) Message-ID: <1401@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 13:35:21 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1401 Posted: Thu Aug 15 13:35:21 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 08:06:50 EDT References: <3268@drutx.UUCP> <10615@rochester.UUCP> <1733@mnetor.UUCP> <344@persci.UUCP> Organization: Ken Kopp's Fresh Seafood Tank Lines: 29 > > 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. -- Jeff Myers The views above may or may not University of Wisconsin-Madison reflect the views of any other Madison Academic Computing Center person or group at UW-Madison. AT&T: (608) 262-9887 ARPA: uwmacc!myers@wisc-rsch.ARPA UUCP: ..!{harvard,ucbvax,allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!myers BitNet: MYERS at MACCWISC