Japan's Secret War: How Japan's Race to Build its Own Atomic Bomb Provided the Groundwork for North Korea's Nuclear Program Third Edition: Revised and Updated

How Japans World War II race to build an atomic bomb fathered North Koreas nuclear threat. This revised and greatly updated third edition of Japans Secret War is a groundbreaking thoroughly sourced investigation into one of the least-known yet highly significant episodes of World War II: Japans frantic race to develop its own atomic bomb. Well discover how that effort then evolved into North Koreas nuclear program and the looming threat it presents to mankind. Japans WWII development of a nuclear program is not universally known. After decades of research into national intelligence archives both in the US and abroad Robert Wilcox builds on his earlier accounts and provides the most detailed account available of the creation of Japans version of our own Manhattan Projectfrom the projects inception before Americas entry into WWII to the possible detonation of a nuclear device in 1945 in present-day North Korea. Wilcox weaves a fascinating portrait of the secret giant industrial complex in northern Korea where Japans atomic research and testing culminated. And it is there that North Korea following the Japanese defeat salvaged what remained of the complex and fashioned its own nuclear program. This program puts not only Japan but also its allies including the US in jeopardy.