but this line is interesting
After the War, Hanso became the leading purveyor of high-technology armaments to NATO.
My own theory about what has happened is that soemtime during the war, with the increased activity in the pacific and electromagnet anomolay was discovered on the island. Notes were made and passed on to the scientists and Hanso's people discovered it and went there to study it and awoke something.
This ties in a bit with the plot of the comic book that Walt was reading.
It's worth any Lostians time to check out the details of that book.
You can go here
http://www.lostlinks.net/and click on Walt's comic book and read the whole thing. In english fortunately.