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THE UNSOLVED MESSAGES OF PEARL HARBOR
- Source :
- Cryptologia; October 1991, Vol. 15 Issue: 4 p295-313, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 1991
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Abstract
- In 1941, the United States Navy intercepted enough Japanese naval messages to predict the attack on Pearl Harbor if the code which protected them had been solved. The messages would have disclosed that, while the Japanese government cynically conducted diplomatic negotiations with the United States, the Japanese Combined Fleet under Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, beginning as early as September 1941, systematically prepared ships, crews, weapons, tactics, and a complicated fuel supply system for the most ambitious operation ever undertaken by the Japanese navy. Details of Japan's intentions were hidden from Navy cryptanalysts because of limited manpower resources and because all Japanese navy codes were assigned a lower priority than Japanese diplomatic codes and German submarine threat.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01611194 and 15581586
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Cryptologia
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs11303864
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0161-119191865957