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- From: eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
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- Subject: Re: German nuclear research in WW2
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:23:40 GMT
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- From "Eugene N. Miya" <eugene@nas.nasa.gov>
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- In article <C1D84A.989@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> aylwyn@maths.tcd.ie
- (Aylwyn Scally) writes:
- >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.
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- No where near.
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- >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.
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- You interpret this wrong. America published little. The German program
- was known. That knowledge got the US program going.
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- >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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- Norsk Hydro plant in Telemark. A popular film and a documentary exist
- on its destruction.
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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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- Visit a decent University library. The history is documented.
- The number of reference pages is in the dozens.
- New documents are going to be published by the Engish shortly.
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