From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 07:13:46 MST
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
>
> Robert's comments reminded me of a History Channel special on Secrets of
> World War Two, or Secret Weapons, The Swastika and the Samurai, or some such
> title. It depicted through computer animation, the development of the
> Japanese submarine which could carry a specialized plane (3 of these
> submarines were actually built!), which would attack the US west coast. The
> targets principally would have been Los Angeles, San Diego, or San Francisco.
I found it rather illuminating that the Japanese Navy chose to refuse to
deploy their long range supersubs for this mission, preferring to keep
them close to home for missions against assaults on the home islands.
Indicates that Naval brass were already psychologically defeated (or
perhaps they were just making excuses to avoid war crimes trials).
>
>
> The Japanese has highly developed bacteriological weapons waiting for use.
> But there was also mention of the Dirty Bombs as Robert mentioned them. The
> animation had the dirty bomb depicted to be as devastating as an actual
> nuclear fission detonation. Glad to see that this type of attack is far,
> less, damaging then the documentary indicated :-)
A dirty bomb COULD be devastating. Keep in mind that a dirty bomb might
or might not achieve fission, but its primary purpose would be to
disperse lots of unfissioned radioactive isotopes, and having part of
the bomb achieve fission would disperse the materials far better than a
mere chemical explosive charge.. I suspect the Japanese chose the
biological route because it was likely more trusted to do its dirty
work. Radioactivity was a very mysterious and little understood thing at
the time.
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