Yoshio Nishina
Yoshio Nishina was a Japanese nuclear physicist who, in 1940, was charged by the Japanese army, to direct the team charged to study the manufacture of the nuclear weapon.
Three volumes of letters and documents are appeared, in Japanese, 2007. It was noted there the presence of a letter of E. Teller which planned, in 1933, to flee in Japan… Without Teller, it seems rather clear that the development of the Projet Manhattan could have been less prompt!
Sources
Article in the English daily newspaper Japan Times of August 14th, 2007, p. 3
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