X-planes

[Norm]

HI:

I just discovered this web site!!!

I have been reading all those books about Nazi's that
talk about X-Planes, flying saucers, German Atomic bombs,
Japanese Atomic bombs exploded in Korea, etc. There seem
to be so many alternate reality books out there and
the History Channel keeps producing so much fodder for
discussion that it is easy to forget who won the war. They
keep talking about the TA-183, HO 18 and how the Germans
wanted to nuke NYC with the German atomic bomb. I thought
it did not exist.

I am currently reading Carter Hydrick's book about his
theories about Enriched uranium aboard the U-234 and
infra-red fuses.

I would like to know if there any merits to all of these
ideas. In particular, I want to know if the Japanese
atomic bomb project in Korea was factual and whether
the Japanese could have delivered a strike to the US
west coast via their submarine aircraft carriers.

[Corsarius]

quote:Originally posted by Norm

I'll say Hi back to you and bite. I am a founding member of AUFORN and still sometime field researcher. It's fun and frustrating and you meet all kinds of wierd people (As well as the more disturbing kinds, the normal people who really have seen something wierd).

quote:I just discovered this web site!!!

I have been reading all those books about Nazi's that
talk about X-Planes, flying saucers, German Atomic bombs,
Japanese Atomic bombs exploded in Korea, etc. There seem
to be so many alternate reality books out there and
the History Channel keeps producing so much fodder for
discussion that it is easy to forget who won the war. They
keep talking about the TA-183, HO 18

Never heard of 'em.

quote: and how the Germans
wanted to nuke NYC with the German atomic bomb. I thought
it did not exist.

Depending on who you ask, Heisenberg either lacked the skill of Oppenheimer and his team, or he deliberately sabotaged the project. Either way, It didn't go ahead before the end.

quote: I want to know if the Japanese
atomic bomb project in Korea was factual

My knowledge on atomic physics is extremely limited, but to my understanding the Japanese were trying for a very advanced form of atomic weaponry using uranium gas (I forget how it all works). It's insanely corrosive and they couldn't get past that with their technological level at the time.

quote:and whether
the Japanese could have delivered a strike to the US
west coast via their submarine aircraft carriers.

This one I DO know about. The I-400 class could have delivered a devastating blow using bioweapons (As they were originally envisaged). They were on their way to attack the locks of the Panama Canal when the war ended. Some things I have read state that if they had attacked the lightly-defended canal earlier in the war using these powerful submarines and the impressive aircraft stowed aboard, the effect would have been as great as the original 'shock and awe' of the attack on Pearl Harbour.

You also forget that mainland US was bombed by the Japanese using their 'fu-go' balloons and knowlege of the jet stream. Many fires broke out in Canada and north-west USA because of them, but as far as I know only a family picnicing was actually ever killed by them. One also landed by a freak chance on the power station that was delivering power to the manhattan project, setting it back several weeks.