title: Wartime nuclear weapons research in Germany and Japan.
abstract: This article compares military research projects during the Second World War to develop nuclear weapons in Germany and Japan, two countries who lost the war and failed to create nuclear weapons. The performance and motivations of the scientists, as well as the institutional support given the work, is examined, explaining why, in each case, the project went as far as it did-but no further. The story is carried over into the postwar period, when the two cultures and their scientists had to deal with the buildup of nuclear weapons during the cold war and the new nuclear power industry.
authors.affiliation: Bowling Green State University, Department of History, Williams Hall, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA. wgrund@bgnet.bgsu.edu
authors.forename: Walter E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Grunden
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: Masakatsu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamnazaki
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007221:Industry / Q000266:history*; D038622:Internationality / Q000266:history; D007564:Japan; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000266:history*; D054043:Nuclear Weapons / Q000266:history*; D010825:Physics / Q000266:history*; D011056:Political Systems / Q000266:history; D012106:Research / Q000266:history; D047789:World War II