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From: Tom Merkel (merkel@shuxd.att.com)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Japanese "Manhattan Project"
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Date: 16 Jun 89 03:34:16 GMT
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From: Tom Merkel (merkel@shuxd.att.com)
I once worked for a physicist who was part of the Japanese military
R&D effort towards the end of WWII.  He stated to me that there was a 
Japanese nuclear effort,  but it was poorly funded with only a 
handful of researchers.  His opinion was that while the people
working on it were good,  they had no resources for implementation
or testing.  He wasn't certain that they would have been able to
produce anything militarily useful. He claimed no direct involvement.

-Tom
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          Tom Merkel		|	merkel@shuxd.att.com
   Hard work never hurt anyone, |	att!shuxd!merkel
   but why take chances.    	|	merkel%shuxd@att.arpa