ATOMIC BOMB: Japan’s Secret WW2 A-Bomb Project

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  • @JD-kf2ki
    @JD-kf2ki 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thus, we can see that the physicists at the Manhattan project were some of the finest scientists on Earth at the time.

    • @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020
      @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And the USA has the deepest pocket to finance the A Bomb development

    • @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020
      @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Indeed and also, its good that they have the best and safest industrial base(far from the war front) and economic support in the world.

    • @discosheepish2868
      @discosheepish2868 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020 The fact USA had nuclear weapons before anyone else wasnt due to the finest minds but it came down to logistics. Although its unknown alot with Japanese nuclear weapons program, Nazi germany was there and lacking materials having already tested nuclear weapons and Russia wasnt far behind. If USA hadnt had nuclear weapons when it did then a year later it could of been any of Russia, Japan and Nazi germany having the weapons instead.

    • @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020
      @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@discosheepish2868 Russia is already bankcrupt in 1945, there's no way they can develop the bomb by themselves. The Germans have a good lead in nuclear research but are busy on other things and does not have the time and resources in developing the bombed during the war. Japan have the idea how to make the bombed but does not have the resources as well to make one.

  • @sirlarryofd
    @sirlarryofd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Found your channel via the Imjin War series, which is the best series on the subject on TH-cam that I have found. You’re doing great content. Thank you!

    • @sirlarryofd
      @sirlarryofd 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      A similar channel that I have seen explode recently is Mark Felton Productions. Check him out, more of a WW2 focus. Again, great work Samuel!

    • @realsamuelhawley
      @realsamuelhawley  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for coming back!

  • @thethreeedgedsword7253
    @thethreeedgedsword7253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Still had the intro music from your Imjin War series, in my head when you finished your intro in this video.
    Amazing stuff, I had no idea

    • @thethreeedgedsword7253
      @thethreeedgedsword7253 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@noxnosferatu2421 I’m glad I’m not alone lol. I need to turn it into a ringtone

    • @realsamuelhawley
      @realsamuelhawley  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Here's the full song: freemusicarchive.org/music/Second_Hand_Rose/Live_on_WFMUs_100_Whatever_with_Mary_Wing_October_19_2014/Picking_Flowers

    • @thethreeedgedsword7253
      @thethreeedgedsword7253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@realsamuelhawley after listening to it 3 times now, it would be an injustice to make it into a short ringtone. my god these guys can jam, I’d freaking love to be in a concert of theirs. I don’t understand a word and it’s phenomenal. Thanks for this, because I can also imagine Admiral Yi winning battle after battle to this, thanks to you:)

    • @realsamuelhawley
      @realsamuelhawley  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thethreeedgedsword7253 Right on, TES!

  • @stealthworx4371
    @stealthworx4371 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    There are barely any sources of info on this very important but secret project. Wish there was a way to learn more about this Japanese nuclear program.

    • @DavidPhilopott-bq9uv
      @DavidPhilopott-bq9uv ปีที่แล้ว

      Robert Wilcox Japan's Secret War

    • @mr.huygens1273
      @mr.huygens1273 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DavidPhilopott-bq9uv There’s also a few academic articles that have been written about it but they are hard to find and can be behind paywalls. Learning about the Japanese home front is also very difficult too

  • @thomasfx3190
    @thomasfx3190 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    $2BN US to drive a successful Manhattan project sounds like a bargain considering the alternative. It’s good to know that both the Japanese & the Germans applied minuscule resources to this effort or the war might have turned out very differently. And people criticize the US for using atomic weapons on Japan, had things been different they would have surely done the same to us.

    • @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020
      @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Both Japan and the Germans indeed have the brains to make their own Abomb but they just dont have the money, the raw materials, the industrial base, the infrastructure and the time to make the bomb.

  • @nni9310
    @nni9310 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    France and the UK also had atomic bomb projects. Not long before the US entered the war, the UK gave he results of its research to the US.

  • @progadkri5662
    @progadkri5662 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Was this the final episode? If so, then I am eagerly awaiting your next series.

  • @captainaffection
    @captainaffection 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Loved the ending statement
    EPIC

  • @jjhays36
    @jjhays36 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My favorite new historian on TH-cam, if you are ever in Korea and want to travel or film, just holler.

  • @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020
    @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    To think that Japan have more than one group of scientist racing to develop the A Bomb is so terrifying.

    • @grandcanyon-d4d
      @grandcanyon-d4d 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      IJA and IJN also had separated nuclear programs

  • @jpark9483
    @jpark9483 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where is the opening, intro scene from? Is it the Trinity nuclear test? I'm just curious.

  • @haplon33
    @haplon33 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating stuff. Thank you!

  • @victorladd2959
    @victorladd2959 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was very surprised by your program but seven years or more ago the History Channel did do an hour on both programs with emphasis on the Navy program. I have the disc they sold. They show their successful test in AUG in what is now southeast north Korea within a week of Hiroshima. In 1947 basic info was published on New Times, LA Times, Atlantic Constitution, Chicago Tribune by a New Jersey resident on assignment in Japan. I looked them up. Then it was censored. But the Russians thought it was real; they brought the Uranium processing plant & project scientists back to Russia.

    • @jazznik2
      @jazznik2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, I saw this also and also have the DVD.

  • @Packless1
    @Packless1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    11:25 ...that's when Teflon enters thr game...!
    ...yes, the anti-stick-frying-pan is a byproduct of the Atomic- rather than the Space-age...!

  • @yellowrose0910
    @yellowrose0910 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing how you can find *nothing* about this on TH-cam. Why are they censoring it?!

    • @grandcanyon-d4d
      @grandcanyon-d4d 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They never even mention Shiro Ishii's role in the Korean war either

  • @noxnosferatu2421
    @noxnosferatu2421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First! Gonna love this new episode =)
    Still waiting for your Imjin book after 15 days =(

    • @cristipopa4665
      @cristipopa4665 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Try Amazon, i had mine the next day.

    • @noxnosferatu2421
      @noxnosferatu2421 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cristipopa4665 unfortunately im from a country without Amazon infrastructures, unlike the US.
      I ordered it through a major Physical/Online book retailer and they said that no asnwer has been provided from the Publisher or Editor yet (can't remember exactly which one they mentioned).

    • @cristipopa4665
      @cristipopa4665 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@noxnosferatu2421 I lve in germany isf you live in europe i could buy it for you an send it

    • @noxnosferatu2421
      @noxnosferatu2421 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cristipopa4665 thank you for such availability, but im confident I can get this sorted out with the retailer.
      Also sending it international sounds expensive ^^ regardless, I will get this sorted. Thank you =)

    • @noxnosferatu2421
      @noxnosferatu2421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cristipopa4665 I've just received the book today! Very good read so far =)

  • @CharlieSolis
    @CharlieSolis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nice video, thanks for the factoids! I love how everyone always conveniently leaves out the fact that even we, the US got the uranium for the Trinity test FROM the Nazis when a Nazi submarine headed for Japan surrendered to the US in mid may 1945. We didn’t even make it ourselves.

    • @jerryg53125
      @jerryg53125 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If you are going to make stuff up as least make it sound like it could be true.Total BS.

    • @CharlieSolis
      @CharlieSolis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jerryg53125 German submarine U-234
      But nice try with the attempt at a snarky comment. 🤭

    • @CharlieSolis
      @CharlieSolis 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jerryg53125 German submarine U-234 was a Type XB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II, she was commanded by Kapitänleutnant Johann-Heinrich Fehler. Her first and only mission into enemy or contested territory consisted of the attempted delivery of uranium oxide and German advanced weapons technology to the Empire of Japan. After receiving Admiral Dönitz' order to surface and surrender and of Germany's unconditional surrender, the submarine's crew surrendered to the United States on 14 May 1945.

    • @CharlieSolis
      @CharlieSolis 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jerryg53125 you were saying? 🤣😂

    • @CharlieSolis
      @CharlieSolis 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jerryg53125 A classified US intelligence summary written on 19 May listed U-234's cargo as including drawings, arms, medical supplies, instruments, lead, mercury, caffeine, steels, optical glass and brass. That the ship carried 1,200 pounds (540 kg) of uranium oxide remained classified for the duration of the Cold War.

  • @たちなか-x5o
    @たちなか-x5o ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Japanese, German and American Jews.At that time, the whole world was in a race to develop an atomic bomb.Japan's Hideki Yukawa sold Japan's atomic bomb technology to the Jews and later received a Nobel Prize.American Jews dropped atomic bombs on Japan, which aimed to liberate Asia.

  • @thomasciarlariello
    @thomasciarlariello ปีที่แล้ว

    Robet K. Wilcox's book ignores how Noguchi of early 1940s Hamgyong Province achieved muon catalyzed fusion rocket plane propulsion later credited to Alvarez.
    My MIT peer reviewed articles described how early 1940s Hamgyong Province had rocket plane engines comprised of a Dewar of deuterium connected to beryllium alloy reaction chamber nozzle coiled in around an electromagnet coil to lens cosmic ray muons while cryogenic fuel prevented exceeding Curie Point for alpha particles to be deflected for beryllium to convert alpha particles into neutron flux to enrich fuel.
    Hasegawa's memoir and O.S.S. files described deuterium rocket plane fuels of Project NA Thru NZ.

    • @thomasciarlariello
      @thomasciarlariello ปีที่แล้ว

      It is important to remember how Imperial Japanese East Asian Co Prosperity Sphere lacked enough quality ferrous irons amid surpluses of chemicals and silk to not have rail transit tracks nor locomotives to rely on steam filled airships inspired by Korean hoopskirted farthingales called "hanbok" with panniers called "daeshin chima" and braided composite fiber composite fuselage rocket powered gliders inspired by how East Asian brides had Edith Nesbit Melisande coiffures of "Bumpits" to transport cargo freight between rooftop hangars equipped with Mary Kenney patented STOL fans.
      Roy Chapaman Andrews described how what rail transit tracks they did have were controlled by Stalinist Soviet backed rickshaw banditry gangs who later became Khmer Rogue Maoists and Kim Dynasty of North Korea since Roosevelt from 1938 to 1945 had a blockade on East Asia of sea floor mines for brave aerial tanker freighter pilots who had to rely on smoke screen exhaust trails of nonferrous improvised materials to avoid Allied corsairs.
      Please remember such forgotten inventors such as Mary Kenney of late 1920s flappers who had to us her attorney Gibbons on patents having just won a right to vote along with modern attire previously confined to "be dainty corsets of Edwardian hobble skirts" and Noguchi of Hamgyong who had to use Employee Fritz Hansgirg from central Europe on patents due to Eurocentric bias hegemony of how 1935 to 1945 WWII was mythologized as Politically Correct Popular.

    • @thomasciarlariello
      @thomasciarlariello ปีที่แล้ว

      Barbara Moloney and Robert Mikesh are a few authors since most Axis sources such as "Sashin Shuho" were censored for Allies to have imposed rail transit track locomotives and solar agricultural farms on Asia so Allies in of Fall of 1945 had leveled mountainous terrain.
      O..S.S files describe how Noguchi of Hamgyong had used a cyclotron for an x-ray free electron laser optical traps and xenon argon laser optical traps for metallurgical chemical refineries decades before Maiman was credited for lasers.
      Fact Alvarez's work on muon catalyzed and Maiman's laser work began after United Nations Peacekeepers had returned from ruins of Hamgyong and of course civilian evacuation of Hungnam in December of 1950 clearly shows rooftop hangars of Motomiya or Pyonggun and STOL fan docks with Trippler air liquefier column towers resembling grain elevators.

  • @lancewoodrum7455
    @lancewoodrum7455 ปีที่แล้ว

    There isa Member of that Team in th Us that said they did make a device and detonated it one day before we dropped on Hiroshima . having no material to make another device he said they knew that they had lost the race. But they were closer than this video proposes.

  • @DynastyUK
    @DynastyUK 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    nice :D Subbed

  • @victorladd2959
    @victorladd2959 ปีที่แล้ว

    So can youimagine back then announcing thatJapan is a nuclear power.

  • @thomasciarlariello3228
    @thomasciarlariello3228 ปีที่แล้ว

    You censored my entries posted since Robert K. Wilcox distorted truth on how early 1940s Hamgyong Province had developed muon catalyzed fusion rocket engines for rocket planes ideal for "Xcor Lynx spaceplane".

    • @realsamuelhawley
      @realsamuelhawley  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hey Thomas, I haven’t removed yours or anyone else’s comments. If they got dropped, it must be something going on with TH-cam.

  • @Mike_MFn_Jones
    @Mike_MFn_Jones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    War .. what is it good for?
    Absolutely Nothing!

  • @michaelnewton1332
    @michaelnewton1332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Germans had uranium, but could not sufficiently produce heavy water.
    The Japanese could produce sufficient heavy water, but had no uranium.
    Even if the Japanese were able to produce a nuke, they didn't have sufficient delivery systems to use it as a strategic weapon against the United States. the best they could have done is used it as a tactical weapon, albeit using kamikaze methods, against the US Fleet or the Red Army massed towards Manchuria. And even with that, it would have to be a low-yield weapon because of payload concerns.

    • @SuperMarry23
      @SuperMarry23 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Norsk Hydro produced heavy water. So the Germans had heavy water.

    • @williamjpellas0314
      @williamjpellas0314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SuperMarry23 There were in fact more than a dozen and probably more like 16 sites at which WWII Germany was producing heavy water. They had more than enough to build nuclear weapons.

    • @SuperMarry23
      @SuperMarry23 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@williamjpellas0314 I did not know that. But the story of the guys who blew that factory up, is one of the great war tales here in Norway.

    • @Z5100-k7t
      @Z5100-k7t 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Delivery systems 😂. The Japanese were literally crashing there planes into enemy war ships.

  • @k-nine2458
    @k-nine2458 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How can i make a Bomb with gas such as butane, propane etc

    • @patrichausammann
      @patrichausammann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      First learn to be a good person, then learn some basic chemistry!

  • @gogrape9716
    @gogrape9716 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The conclusions are not accurate. Both German and Japanese nuclear Development were still in the research stages. The Americans were the only nation capable of the worlds second largest military project.. The building house American cyclotrons was ONE Square mile in size used one seventh of all American electrical power.

  • @thomasciarlariello3228
    @thomasciarlariello3228 ปีที่แล้ว

    Robert K. Wilcox and Barbara Moloney interviewed for History Channel's documentary on such a subject ignores several facts from limited resources to cite since most technical reports were lost during incendiaries amid flame throwers since film reel they showed was the only a National Archives film on Norhtern provinces of Korea before 1945 besides a film on Manchuria where a boat docks in Seishin for a truck to travel over Changbai Kumgang mountains into Manchuria.
    During Fall of 1945 communists labeled technician engineers as "Japanese Collaborators" so even today their metals do not meet DOT inspection while Anglo Americans censored informational materials of what had been East Asian branch of Axis Powers so who knows what technologies were forever lost since "Atomic Dome" in of Hiroshima was a patent office.
    Noguchi and Songsu of early 1940s Hamgyong Province had metallurgical and chemical processors of xenon argon lamps for Rydberg excitation decades before Maiman's first laser.
    Noguchi and Songsu of early 1940s Hamgyong Province had a rocket plane engine comprised of a Dewar of cryogenic liquified deuterium fuel connected to a beryllium alloy reaction chamber nozzle coiled in around electromagnet coils to focus cosmic muons while fuel prevented electromagnet coils from exceeding Curie Point a decade before Alavez due to United Nations Peace Keepers since I can prove how Sakharov's muon catalyzed papers began after Communists pillaged what had been Noguchi's factories extended from Wonsan to Harbin.
    Imperial Japan lacked quality ferrous iron while having had surpluses of silk and chemicals at first had sulfur fueled steam filled airships of ceramic burners so later had rocket powered gliders to haul freight of Hasegawa's NA to NZ synthetic fuels from electrochemical Nitchitsu industries ranging from Deuterium to Hydrazine due to Roosevelt's naval blockades from 1938 to 1945 where electromagnets were used for submarine warfare.
    Most areas of Northeast Asia at that time were too mountainous of rivers full of jagged waterfalls even for cog railways so river boats had to ducted fans with gasbags and O..S.S. Files show rooftop airship hangars with ducted louvered fans and airship docks with ducted louvred fans as an alternative to how elsewhere rai transit tracks were built upon coolies since female divers and synthetic fermentation allowed Japan to avoid how other nations had solar agricultural serfdom.
    By Fall of 1945 Anglo Americans had leveled whole mountains in search of underground weapons factories to detriment of hydroelectric and geothermal power to impose agriculture and rail transit tracks on Japan for Japan to become dependent on Pennsylvania steel and Texas crude since even Riken cyclotrons were dumped into Lake Hakone.
    March 1961 "Chemical Engineering Progress" describes how uranium's radioactivity was used to synthesize hydrazine they could have improved by enrichment and what was a machine tool used in of on Manchurian Aerospace factories from 1938 to 1945 depicted in "Sashin Shuho"?
    Sill Robert K. Wilcox and History Channel ignore how Noguchi was a victim of Eurocentric racism since he had to use Frtiz Hansgirg from Central Europe on patents just as Mary Kenney had to use her Attorney Gibbons on Patents for ground based fans for aerial traffic in tight urbanized areas due to limited gender roles of her time.
    So please remember inventors who were forgotten due to White Male hegemony.

  • @thomasciarlariello3228
    @thomasciarlariello3228 ปีที่แล้ว

    Of March 2019 by invite only to an engineering conference held inside MIT's Electrical Dept. on Vassar Street of Cambridge, MA. I gave a presentation on how Nitchitsu's Noguchi of early 1940s Hamgyong Province was developing achieve muon catalyzed fusion rocket engine propulsion for rocket planes based on my peer reviewed articles published by Dr. Mitchell Swartz so Ruby Carat of Eureka CA. posted a transcript of my presentation online.

    • @thomasciarlariello3228
      @thomasciarlariello3228 ปีที่แล้ว

      Robert K. Wilcox vilifies Noguchi as a "Dr. Strangelove" to ignore how imperial Japan did not have enough quality iron ferrous metals so cryogenic liquified deuterium fueled rocket propelled gliders and sulfur fueled steam filled airships were their only option to haul freight cargo given mountainous terrain and Allied blockades until Allied Army Corp of Civil Engineers leveled hydroelectric mountains to force Shinkansen for Japan to be reliant on Texas fossil crude and Pennsylvania steel.
      Also during time of Imperial Japan played the race card so both White race or Europeans and Blacks could only reside in of Korea.

    • @-danR
      @-danR ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In 1916 I gave a lecture at MIT outlining how build a Tesla-coil trigger to start a thermonuclear detonation in ordinary thorium. It could have shortened the war, but they laughed in my face and called me a liar, the fools.

  • @dwightrider257
    @dwightrider257 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    totally wrong and a sham of history

    • @realsamuelhawley
      @realsamuelhawley  4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You make a persuasive argument.

    • @dwightrider257
      @dwightrider257 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@realsamuelhawley wod Robert Wilcox's 3rd Edition. The last 80 pag4es is about my

    • @robertwilcox7869
      @robertwilcox7869 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This is a small bit of the complete story of Japan’s World War
      II atomic effort, which was much larger and more significant. After pilot work in Japan,
      most of Japan’s effort was centered in Asia, especially Korea, where, by war’s
      end, evidence indicates the Japanese tested a nuclear device - but too late. The Soviets,
      who knew of the program, swooped in and seized the plants. They were the next
      to publicly make an atom bomb, helped by what they conquered. When the Soviets
      exited, fledgling North Korea took what was left, which was the real beginning
      of North Korea’s current nuclear program. Read it in Japan’s Secret War, Third Edition
      tinyurl.com/y42akjr3

    • @kddiodox
      @kddiodox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@robertwilcox7869 the Soviets learned how to make nuclear weapons from seized japanese war industry? Could you tell more please? Sir

    • @patrichausammann
      @patrichausammann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@kddiodox The Germans tested several atomic bombs and I have plenty of evidence to support my claim!