The flight of_the_hog_wild
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of Nuclear Activity inNorth KoreaRumors
began in 1945
On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb demolished Hiroshima.
Then, a few days later, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and
then a second atomic bomb leveled Nagasaki.
Meanwhile, Soviet forces advanced south, down the coast of Japanese-
occupied northern Korea…
When the
When General Leslie Groves,the head of the Manhattan Project,
heard a rumor thatthe largest radium mine in the worldwas discovered in North Korea…
They called it an“exaggeration”
And when David Snell, a reporter with the Atlanta Constitution, said that Japanese
scientists had developed and tested an atomic bomb at Konan in North Korea…
They called it an“exaggeration”
A Japanese physicistcalled him a “liar”
And when Snell said that the Russians captured Japanese scientists at Konan and tortured them
for their “atomic know-how”…
The Russians called him a “provocateur”
And when he suggested thatthe crew of a B-29
was shot down over Konanby Soviet Yak fighters
because they were snooping onJapan’s atomic program…
The U.S. Secretary of Warcategorically denied the story
And when B-29’s demolished athorium processing plant at Konan
during the early months of the Korean War, and the press said David Snell’s
1946 story was “verified”…
David Snell just smiled..
To read the rest of this fascinating true storyThe Flight of the Hog Wild
- by -Bill Streifer (American) and Irek Sabitov (Russian)
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