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- From: aylwyn@maths.tcd.ie (Aylwyn Scally)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: German nuclear research in WW2
- Message-ID: <C1D84A.989@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:52:58 GMT
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- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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- From aylwyn@maths.tcd.ie (Aylwyn Scally)
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- It seems to be a commonly held view that by the end of the Second World War,
- German physicists were very close to developing their own atomic bomb.
- Coupled with the development of the V2 missile, this could have completely
- changed the outcome of the war.
- However, Gleick, in his biography of Feynman, suggests that most physicists
- in Britain and the US at the time doubted the existence of a German atomic
- programme, on the grounds that there had been very little published research
- from Germany in this field.
- While this may be the case, I do recall reading somewhere that the large
- heavy-water distilling plant (the name of which I cannot remember) in Nazi-
- controlled Norway was considered a serious-enough threat for them to try to
- destroy it.
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- Does anyone know of any evidence confirming or disputing the existence of a
- German nuclear research programme? If there was one, was it very far
- advanced by the time the war ended?
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