In article . net, "Agki Strodon" wrote:

We were technically in a state of war with Krautland ONLY after they
declared war on us. We were in a full state of war when we declared it on
them. They were allies of Japan and it was common knowledge that we would
have to fight them. In fact, the American strategy was to concentrate on
Europe as the more dangerous enemy and prevent further Japanese expansion
until Germany was taken care of. It went better in the Pacific than we
thought it would. Although the Japanese were actually closer to making
their own nuke than the Germans ever were, they needed maybe another year.

This is the first I ever heard that the Japanese had any nuclear weapons
program at all during WWII. Can you cite an authoritative source for that,
please?

BTW, a fascinating history of the German effort to develop an atomic bomb is
given in the book "Heisenberg's War". Although Werner Heisenberg was a deeply
patriotic German, he was *not* a Nazi, and was uncomfortable with the idea of
putting such a weapon in Hitler's hands. There's considerable evidence that he
deliberately sandbagged the German atomic weapons program.

Also, FWIW, the planned target for the first American atomic weapon was not
Hiroshima, or indeed anywhere in Japan. It was Berlin. But the Nazis
surrendered before the bomb was ready.

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