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Some years ago I saw a documentary on TV that claimed that the Japanese had their own bomb program, and in the final days of the war actually detonated a small device. With the defeat they disbanded and destroyed the evidence of it.

I've never seen any hint of this before or since. Has anyone else?



Wikipedia has a detailed description of the program https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapons_pro...

Looks like they never got sufficient quantities of U-235 to attempt a detonation.





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