[net.politics] Was WWII Japan close to developing la bomba?

myers@uwvax.UUCP (Jeff Myers) (10/13/84)

Got this in the mail today; is it really from Truth?

>I think you have simplified matters. It is a known fact to those
>learned in military history that Japan was on the verge of perfecting
>their own nuclear arsenal. Due to an intelligence error Hiroshima was
>destroyed. When it was discovered that the actual research labs were
>in Nagasaki, we were lucky we had another bomb. Remember now, this
>wasn't the 1980's.
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>			Truth