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Comment by colechristensen

Hideki Yukawa was the first Japanese Nobel Prize winner for his work on strong-force related physics in the 1930s.

>It was abandoned after the surrender.

Japan is strongly believed to be on the order of months away from assembling a nuclear weapon, and not just one, they have the materials for many. For them it is not geopolitically useful to actually finish a weapon, but they are more than capable.

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