Re: 8-8-1945

On Aug 9, 12:30 pm, Alan Lothian <alanloth...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 9, 10:02 am, Alan Lothian <alanloth...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Might be the impetus for Robert Wilcox' book Japan's Secret War which
says they did set one off on August 10, 1945.

With the help of the Grays from Zeta Reticulae. Complete and utter
bull***, as you well know, Jack.

Yes, but he hooked Derek de Solla Price in to write an introduction.
Derek is getting handed his on the Antikythera Mechanism question, he
ought to have something to call his own.

Wilcox is a deep-dyed fruit-and-nutcase.  I don't have his book (pub
1985) but it must have been a somewhat strange introduction, given that
Price died in 1983. All grist for the mill, no doubt.

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Blueyonder is a thing of the past.

It says "Introduction" on the cover but is really a three-page
preface. Price had a student, later a professor at Tokyo University,
Yagi Eri (Shizumi), who apparently didn't use Shizumi in his writings.
Some sense that Price felt the Japanese must have had a nuclear
program and should share the guilt of its use.

"Derek de Solla Price, Avalon Professor of the History of Science
at Yale, with Eri Yagi Shizume, a Yale graduate student,
investigated Japan's wartime atomic bomb effort and published a
letter in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1962, seeking
more information on the project. But none was forthcoming.
Price believes the effort was serious enough to "change the moral
and ethical relationship between Japan and the United States."

"Japan's attempt to acquire an atomic weapon during the World
War II changes the moral and ethical relationship between Japan
and the United States that has grown up over the use of the
atomic bomb against Japan. The story has been that the Americans
were guilty and the Japanese were innocent and blameless; that
the Americans developed this terrible new weapon and proceeded to
commit an atomic rape of the then-helpless Japanese."
"But the fact that the Japanese were trying to develop the
bomb, too, means that America was in an arms race with Japan as
much as she was with Germany."


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