Masa Takeuchi and his involvement in the Japanese nuclear weapons research programme
2009
There were two nuclear weapons projects in Japan during World War II: an army
programme called ‘Ni-go Research’ and a much smaller ‘F-Research’ of the navy.1‘Ni-go Research’ was directed by Yoshio Nishina, a leading nuclear physicist at
the Riken, the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research. The experimental
physicist Masa Takeuchi (1911-2001), a member of Nishina’s nuclear research
group, became one of the key fi gures of the army project. This paper will take
Takeuchi’s case as an example of Japanese scientists involved in wartime research
during World War II. His case illustrates how Nishina’s nuclear group adapted for
survival to an extraordinary research environment in wartime.
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