Sign of the times: my first question after speaking at my first event in Tokyo during my first trip back since Jan. 2025 is "what would it take for Japan to build the bomb"?
Sign of the times: my first question after speaking at my first event in Tokyo during my first trip back since Jan. 2025 is "what would it take for Japan to build the bomb"?
And what was the answer?
“As soon as they find the dude in Osaka with a small machining business and a hobby of building (near) working models of WMD.” You know he (or these days, she, check out Shinonome Umi) exists!
Shit.
Political will. They understood the physics in 1945. Notes made by Bunsaku Arakatsu in 1945 proved that when they were discovered some years ago. And the power generation program would easily be able to provide the enriched uranium. It would be all down to political will.
"More than what Aum Shinrikyo could muster, well within the capacity of a state"