Seventy years ago, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan. At the time, the US was the only country with nuclear weapons. That wasn’t for a complete lack of effort on the part of other countries, however, and new documents found heap more evidence on Japan having a program of its own.
It’s been known for some time now that Japan had some degree of nuclear weapons research going on during the war. Two main projects are thought to have been undertaken, Operations Ni-Go and F-Go, respectively, but it’s a bit difficult to ascertain how far they actually progressed. The programs were, of course, secret at the time, and many of the documents involved were either destroyed by the Japanese government as the war came to an end or confiscated by the Americans.
But the information recently discovered points to the program not only being real, but advancing to the point of uranium enrichment...
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