The Japanese were recieving shipment(s) of uranium via the Phillipines by German U-boat as early as 1942.They were paying in gold bulion stolen from Korea and China and from their extensive heroin trafficking operations
There own A bomb programme statrted in 1930s
Current nuclear activities in Japan
Wikepedia says
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_atomic_program
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Since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is a staunch opponent of nuclear arms on all government levels. However, Japan does make extensive use of nuclear energy in nuclear reactors, generating a significant percentage of the electricity in Japan.
Japan has the third largest nuclear energy production after the U.S. and France, and plans to produce over 40% of its electricity using nuclear power by 2010. Significant amounts of Plutonium are created as a by-product of the energy production, and Japan had 4.7 tons of plutonium in December 1995. Japan has also developed the M-5 three-stage solid fuel rocket, similar in design to the U.S. LG-118A Peacekeeper ICBM.
While there are currently no known plans in Japan to produce nuclear weapons, it has been argued Japan has the technology, raw materials, and the capital to produce nuclear weapons within one year if necessary, and some analysts consider it a "de facto" nuclear state for this reason.
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