The document discusses early rumors of nuclear activity in North Korea in the 1940s. When rumors emerged that the largest radium mine was discovered in North Korea and that Japan had tested an atomic bomb there, officials dismissed them as exaggerations. A reporter who suggested that a downed US plane was investigating Japan's nuclear program in the area and that a thorium plant there was bombed later in the Korean War was also largely discredited at the time.

1. of Nuclear Activity in
North Korea
Rumors
began in 1945

2. 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…

3. When the
When General Leslie Groves,
the head of the Manhattan Project,
heard a rumor that
the largest radium mine in the world
was discovered in North Korea…

4. They called it an
“exaggeration”

5. 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…

6. They called it an
“exaggeration”
A Japanese physicist
called him a “liar”

7. And when Snell said that the Russians captured
Japanese scientists at Konan and tortured them
for their “atomic know-how”…

8. The Russians called him
a “provocateur”

9. And when he suggested that
the crew of a B-29
was shot down over Konan
by Soviet Yak fighters
because they were snooping on
Japan’s atomic program…

10. The U.S. Secretary of War
categorically denied the story

11. And when B-29’s demolished a
thorium processing plant at Konan
during the early months of the Korean
War, and the press said David Snell’s
1946 story was “verified”…

12. David Snell just smiled..
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The Flight of the Hog Wild
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