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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Japanese "Manhattan Project" (Submission to sci.military)
Message-ID: <7519@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Jun 89 03:34:17 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From: Dave Newkirk (att!ihlpm!dcn)
A small atomic energy project was active in Japan during WWII.  After the
resources required to make a bomb became known, the major focus of the
project was changed to look at power reactors.  During later air attacks,
some of the critical equipment for enriching uranium was damaged, and the
project never regained momentum.  After the war, some Japanese equipment
was accidentally destroyed by over-enthusiastic workers, when it was needed
by the growing US bomb production project.  Both the German and Japanese
bomb projects are mentioned in historical books on the Manhatten Project.
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				Dave Newkirk, att!ihlpm!dcn
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				Dave Newkirk, att!ihlpm!dcn