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Japan Weighs Nuclear Development
 TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese government recently looked into the possibility of developing a nuclear warhead, a news report said Monday, citing an internal government document. However the government's top spokesman Yasuhisa Shiozaki denied such a document existed.
The Japanese daily Sankei reported that experts at several government organizations concluded it would take at least three to five years to make a prototype weapon.
| That's just smoke. The Japanese have the knowledge and the plutonium, and I bet they also have a blueprint. |
The experts also estimated that the project would cost about $1.68 billion to $2.52 billion and require the efforts of several hundred engineers, according to Sankei.
| Money and engineers are things Japan has in plenty. |
The experts did not say whether Japan should develop nuclear arms, the newspaper reported, only what such a project would require. The newspaper published a summary of the document, dated Sept 20 and titled ``On the Possibility of Developing Nuclear Weapons Domestically.''
Posted by: Steve White 2006-12-25 |
