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- From: davidy@seattleu.edu (Stimpson J. Cat)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: German nuclear research in WW2
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:07:20 GMT
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- From "Stimpson J. Cat" <davidy@seattleu.edu>
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- In article <C1H2zB.F53@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Ewan M Munro IE90 <emunro@cs.strath.ac.uk> writes:
- >
- >From Ewan M Munro IE90 <emunro@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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- ******************* other German A-Bomb meterial deleted ****************
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- >The German goal appears to have been to produce a sustainable nuclear reaction
- >is a Uranium machine. I think that this was basically a large number of Uranium
- >cubes, suspended in Heavy Water. They got about 75% of the reactants that they
- >needed before the reactor was caopture by the allies.
- >
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- ************************* meterial deleted ****************************
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- >Hope that this info is of interest.
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- >--
- >#include <disclaimer.h> Internet: emunro@cs.strath.ac.uk
- >"You don't understand. If you do drop <the microprocessor> through a crack
- > and lose it, then there are millions more where that came from."
- > Robert Noyce : co-inventor of the integrated circuit.
- >
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- According to Albert Speer in his autobiography "Inside the Third
- Reich," nuclear research was indeed given a low priority in Germany. Speer
- attended a conference on nuclear technology, where he was informed by Walter
- Heisenburg that America appeared to be well in the lead in nuclear research,
- as... "Excerpts from American technical journals suggested that plenty of
- technical and financial resources were available there for nuclear research.
- This meant America probably had a head start in the matter, whereas Germany had
- been in the forefront of those studies only a few years ago." (Inside the
- 3rd Reich, pp.301, paperback edition.)
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- Speer also said nuclear research was held back by the lack of a
- cyclotron, and when Speer proposed to have cyclotrons built as large or
- larger than the American ones, he was told their lack of experience meant
- only a small one would be useful. Speer offered more in resources, but was told
- they could not utilize them at that time. In the end, Speer was told the
- bomb could not be ready for 3-4 years, and Speer reasoned the war would end
- before then. Thus, Speer says, he "authorized the development of an energy-
- producing uranium motor for propelling machinery. The Navy was interested in
- that for its submarines." (I3R, pp. 303)
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- Speer said he eventually released the stock of 1200 tons of uranium
- for use in solid-core ammuniation, prompted by a shortage of tungsten caused
- by cutoffs from their suppliers from Portgual. I recall a thread a while
- back asking if the Germans had used uranium-cored ammunition in WWII - if
- Speer is correct, it seems they did.
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- David L. Yee
- email to:davidy@sumax.seattleu.edu
-