"unreal cheeze" wrote in message .. .
I've always wondered...if today I were to bring a geiger
counter alongside of a later model Japanese-assembled
Toyota or Nissan sitin in the lot, would I register
some Alpha or Beta Particle counts...?

Alas, you could bring a geiger counter right to the hypocenters of the
Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions and still register nothing.
Apparently, any residual radiation from the bombs has faded far below
the natural background radiation levels. Same goes for the Trinity
site and most of the Nevada test site so long as you don't pick up any
of the funny green glassy bits.


What Jap factories today are located nearby Hiroshima
and Nagasaki ?

I know that Mitsubishi had a large manufacturing plant in Nakasaki
that was burned out when the city got nuked. They produced torpedoes
for the Jap submarines, which is how we now justify selecting the city
as a military target. I'm not sure if Mitsubishi still has a presence
in the city; I imagine so.

If you find traces of radioactivity on any Nip exports today, it is
most likely from one of several nuclear accidents over the more recent
years.

Incidentally, the Little Boy was a piddly inefficient little nuke. We
used up 67 kilograms of enriched uranium just to make a 12 kiloton
bang. Feh. The Fat Man used a 6.2 kilogram plutonium core for a 23
kiloton explosion. It was the more efficient implosion model, as
opposed to the untested gun-type Little Boy.

Still, though.... One shot, one hundred thousand kills. That's
progress.