rbeville%tekig5.pen.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (06/22/89)
From: rbeville%tekig5.pen.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET Some sources about the Japanese 'MANHATTAN PROJECT' follow: SILENT SIEGE II - Japanese Attacks on North America in WW2 Bert Webber, Webber Research Group, Medford OR 1988 ISBN 0-936738-26-X This has a chapter(15) entitled- Japanese Efforts Toward Building "The Bomb" and has these references: Clark, R.W. _The_Birth_of_the_Bomb_ Horizon, 1961 Groves, Leslie R. _Now_It_Can_Be_Told:_The_Story_of_the_Manhattan_ Project_, Harper, 1962. Nishina, Yoshio "A Japanese Scientist Describes the Destruction of His Cyclotrons" _Bulletin_of_Atomic_Scientists_ June 1947, p 145. Parrott, Lindsay. "Japanese Cyclotrons Destroyed" New York Times Nov 24, 1945, pp 3, 18 Smith A.K. "a Peril and a Hope: The Scientists Movement in America, 1945-47 Univ of Chicago Press, 1965. Discussion... The chapter above mentions how the whole world appears to know about atom-splitting and heavy water in 1939. Cyclotron exhibits in the Treasure Island World's Fair were carefully attended by Japanese physicists.... The Japs purchased a cyclotron, almost a mate to Dr. Lawrences' one at Berkeley. The Smith reference above has mention of the critical need for uranium... Although some claim that the Anti-Comitern Pact between Germany and Japan, signed 25 November 1936 produced no exchanges of assistance, there are many documented German subs in the Pacific, and Japanese subs in the Atlantic... a sub, flying a Japanese flag, sunk in waters near Surabaya, produced one survivor- the officer of the deck... ** he was German, and the sub was the U-183 **. In September 1943, Jap submarine I-8 was in the Brest sub pen for receipt of special cargo. (Photo shows Admiral Kranke greeting I-8 Commander Uchino at dockside in the pen.) How about one more... a message decoded by * ULTRA * codebreakers gave away the position of U-537 to be between Perth and Surabaya. The _S.S.FLOUNDER_ picked her up and sank her north of Lombok Strait. The accounts go on and on confirming the exchange of strategic goods. Apparently, Japanese cargo to Germany was tungsten, quinine and rubber. The story goes on about what happened to the cyclotron laboratories after the surrender.... I dont want to be a 'spoiler' here; you better read it for yourselves. You could say that these are just sightings and sinkings without proof of strategic cargo, so here: The _U.S.S._SUTTON_(DE-771) escorted the U-234 to Portsmouth Navy Yard after Doenitz ordered U-boats to surrender May 4, 1945... The cargo? 560 kg. of Uraninium Oxide and two dead Jap officers who performed ceremonial * seppuku *, devastated at the failure of their mission. Convinced? It's up to you, now... like I said, no spoiler... have to read it 'urself. Now get resource-ful and head for the stacks... Look up who won the 1949 NOBEL Prize in PHYSICS for his prediction of the existence of the * meson * sub-atomic particle. that's -30- from GLOWWORM-7-9-4 best regards, rbeville@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM Bob Beville, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR 97077