How did the then Soviet Union get nuclear technology in the first place?

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• Thanks a lot for the info Chief.:-)

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  by Zack on May 6th, 2009

• You betcha!

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  by The Chief on May 6th, 2009

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• Thanks for the info Thinker.:-)

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  by Zack on May 6th, 2009

• You are welcome...I didn't know about the Japaneese bomb until I saw a educational TV documentery on it while I was living in Canada.

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  by Thinker on May 6th, 2009

• Actually, Japan wasn't nearly so close to building a practical nuclear weapon, much less tested one after America bombed hiroshima.
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  This information was based on a report by a reporter, and former Army intelligence officer, David Snell which said that Japan INTENDED to use nuclear weapons IF their scientists had been successful, and that their scientists were captured by Russian troops three days after they had ALMOST completed a functional atomic bomb. He later published his story for the Atlanta Constitution in 1946, and claimed that the Japanese has successfully tested a nuclear weapon near Konan before being captured by the Russians.
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  Subsequently, Robert K. Wilcox reprinted Snells information in his book "Japan's Secret War: Japan's Race Against Time to Build Its Own Atomic Bomb". However, Wilcox accepted this story because Snell "was a distinguished journalist". Wilcox's book never discusses the problems involved in creating an actual, functional nuclear device, not the industrial infrastructure required to support such an endeavor.
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  The Supremem Allied Command didn't lend any credibility to this story, probably because a nuclear test leaves obvious physical evidence behind in huge quantities, which were never found.
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  Not to mention the HUGE infrastructure required for producing and refining the materials necessary to create such a device were never found, either.
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  It DOES make for an interesting tale, though.

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  by The Chief on May 7th, 2009

• And the Japanese were indeed FAR from being dumb! They had some of the best scientists and engineers in the world.
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  Take a look at the Kyushu J7W Shinden fighter plane they almost put into production!
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  That plane was easily the most advanced fighter interceptor of its time and would have been a REAL problem had it actually gone into production at an earlier time during the war.
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  Truely AWESOME!

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  by The Chief on May 7th, 2009

• The Cheif...all I had to go on was the hour long documentry shown on Canadian National Geographic channel. I knew nothing of it before that documentry. From the captured film they showed they evidently had a good start on producing a bomb.

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  by Thinker on May 7th, 2009

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• FYI the Germans were way off, on their development of the bomb, we developed it purely on our own, with many pre-war german jewish scientists.

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  by Bjones on June 26th, 2009

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