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- From: anasaz!briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: German nuclear research in WW2
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:00:41 GMT
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- From Brian Douglass <anasaz!briand@anasazi.com>
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- In article <C1F74x.L3M@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Steve Williams <swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil> writes:
- >
- >From Steve Williams <swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- >
- >
- >In sci.military, aylwyn@maths.tcd.ie (Aylwyn Scally) writes:
- > >From aylwyn@maths.tcd.ie (Aylwyn Scally)
- > >
- > >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.
- >
- >This was a common view at that time, but there's nothing to sustain
- >this concept. The Germans initially had a five-year lead in the nuclear
- >research, but they took a wrong turn somewhere along the way.
-
- [stuff deleted]
- >Note: All of this from my memory; please correct me if I am wrong.
- > No flames, please. There's a book on this subject that I read
- > some time ago; I think its title was "Making of the Atomic Bomb".
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- There is also a documentary out, somewhere in which the principal subject
- was the Army Officer responsible for going through captured facilities
- looking for evidence of the German program. Though he did find such
- evidence, what he found led him and others back at the Manhattan project to
- believe the Germans were not even close to completion of a bomb.
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- What sticks out in memory about this documentary was how this officer said
- "...though shocked to realize the Germans were so far behind, Oppie and the
- rest never even thought about stopping the project [Manhattan]. After all,
- there was still a war on in the Pacific." to paraphrase.
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- Whether or not Manhattan should have been stopped was another question the
- documentary was attempting to answer.
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- > Steve Williams swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil
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