Japan's Secret War: Japan's Race Against Time to Build Its Own Atomic Bomb

by Robert K. Wilcox

Book Overview

How Japan's World War II race to build an atomic bomb fathered North Korea's nuclear threat. This revised and greatly updated third edition of Japan's Secret War is a groundbreaking, thoroughly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156924815X
• ISBN13: 9781569248157
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Marlowe & Company
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Poor Misrepentation

Purchaed This Book Based On The Cover Of The Ad. Was Not The 3Rd Edition, But The First. Should Have Read The Details.

The Axis and the Bomb part II: The Japanese

This is an interesting book about Japan building the atomic bomb. The location where the research was conducted was North Korea. I think this is a good book.

Essential World War II reading.

Wilcox's book explains not only how essential it was to finish WWII as soon as humanly possible, it ties up some loose ends. Why did Russia make a beeline to Hungnam when it entered the war, and why was it so antsy to start the invasion? Why was our country so sure that orientals wouldn't ever develop the bomb? And for those who doubt that Japan would have used it, read the definitive, massive, but eminently readable Japan's Imperial Conspiracy by Bergamini.

An outstanding Historical study of Japan's Nuclear efforts!

Robert Wilcox has documented the final answer to those who might suggest that the US had some racist motive to drop two atomic bombs on Japan. They, in fact, planned to drop one on us! Yoshio Nishina, one of the world's formost nuclear scientists, had a major operation underway to develop nuclear weapons for WW-II Japan. It is only now that we have the declassified files, can we disclose this information. My hat is off to Robert for this outstanding book. REQUIRED READING IF YOU WANT THE TRUTH.Robert A. Clark President Internation Association of Military Technology Historians

Interesting and very informative

A very well researched book. One can only wonder why some of the information the author was unable to obtain is still marked "Top Secret" Someday we will know all the facts in this matter, but until then this book provides enough information for us to stop feeling guilty about dropping the bomb, they would have if they had it.