- August 16 - 8-9 pm
The History Channel (in the US)
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- "A revealing look at the untold story of Japan's
atomic bomb, and how they may have detonated a nuclear device just two
days before surrender. Since the end of WWII, conventional wisdom claimed
that Imperial Japan was years away from building an atomic weapon--this
special shatters this view. Using once secret Japanese wartime documents,
we provide evidence that Japan had world- class nuclear physicists, access
to uranium ore, and cyclotrons to process it. They devised an innovative
way to deliver the bombs using 400-foot long Sen Toku submarines, capable
of carrying and launching airplanes. Most startling--just six days after
Hiroshima, Japan tested its own atomic device on a small island 20 miles
off the Korean coast. The sobering conclusion is that Japan may have been
just weeks behind the US in the race for the bomb."
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- http://www.historychannel.com
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- Comment
Tom Clements
8-13-5
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- I have heard that the program has been softened considerably
due to political considerations related to the FOX channel & Murdoch's
business deals with Japan. Evidently interviews with North Koreans were
heavily censored by that country. I don't know if the program gets into
anything speculative about Japan's current nuclear weapons potential or
mentions Japan's plutonium stockpiling program or start-up of the massive
new Rokkasho reprocessing factory.
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