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What If Japan Had Succeeded in Developing an Atomic Bomb during WWII?
What if the Japanese had succeeded in developing a nuclear weapon at the end of World War II, but were stopped before deploying it? But the bomb is still hidden. At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge.
That’s the premise for The Gate: Shadow Warriors. I didn’t invent this out of thin air. I was wandering the stacks at the Fort Campbell post library one day and saw a book titled Japan’s Secret War. In the nonfiction section. I used to know the Dewey Decimal System pretty damn well. You know, before the internet. I’m still a big believer in reading books for research rather than googling stuff. Why? Because you need to know the question to google something. Reading a book raised questions you hadn’t thought of. Like this one.
The author laid out some interesting facts in this book. As the Third Reich was reduced to rubble, a U- Boat attempted to make the arduous journey to Japan. Its cargo? Scientists, enriched uranium, and two Japanese naval officers. The Japanese worked extensively on their biological and chemical weapons. Unit 731 in Manchuria was infamous and largely ignored by history. I use Unit 731 in several of my books particularly The Gate.
OSS documents indicate that Japan’s nuclear weapons program was also headquartered in Manchuria. Which the author speculates is…
