Takeo Yasuda

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Takeo Yasuda
Lieutenant General
Battles/warsWorld War II

Takeo Yasuda (安田 武雄, Yasuda Takeo, 16 January 1889 – 23 August 1964) was a

development of a Japanese atom bomb
during the early stages of the war.

Biography

Yasuda was a native of

Tokyo Imperial University from 1913 to 1916, where he specialized in electrical engineering
.

On his graduation, Yasuda returned to regular military service as a chief Signals Officer in the Japanese China Garrison Army, and as an instructor at the Artillery School. He was then seconded by the Kwantung Army to the Inspectorate General of Military Training and was sent to Germany for further training. On his return to Japan, he was appointed Director of Research Department of the Army Signal School between 1932 and 1934. While assigned to the Ministry of the Army, he served as Chief of the Fortifications Section for Military Affairs in the Military Administration Bureau until 1937 when he became attached to the Army Aeronautical Technical Research Institute. Initially heading the 2nd Bureau, he was also Head of Field Aviation Ordnance before returning to the Institute as director of Army Aeronautical Technical Research, with the rank of major general by the end of the year.[1] In 1937, he was promoted to the honorific title of Junior Fifth Court Rank[2]

During the late-1930s, Yasuda became interested in

Japan Physical and Chemical Research Institute who in turn assigned the project to nuclear physicist Yoshio Nishina.[4][5][6]
However, his proposals to produce a weapon were reduced to a search project due to the wartime constraints on Japanese resources.

Between 1942 and 1944, Yasuda was commander of the Tokyo-based

Japanese home islands against Allied invasion; however, he retired shortly before the war's end.[1]
He died in 1964.

References

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Ammentorp, Steen (2000). "Biography of Lieutenant-General Takeo Yasuda". Generals.dk.
  2. ^ 『官報』第3101号「叙任及辞令」May 8, 1937
  3. ISBN 978-1540203205
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  4. ISBN 0-8047-2141-6
  5. ^ Schneider, Barry R. Radical Responses to Radical Regimes: Evaluating Preemptive Counter-Proliferation. McNair Paper No. 41. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, May 1995. (pg. 11)
  6. ISBN 0-275-96278-4
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