Timeline for At the end of WWII, were Nazis working on any other super weapon besides V-2?
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| Feb 13, 2017 at 22:42 | comment | added | asmaier | Popp 2016: "Misinterpreted Documents and Ignored Physical Facts: The History of ‘Hitler's Atomic Bomb’ needs to be corrected" (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bewi.201601794/abstract) shows that the German physicist did not know how to build a nuclear bomb. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 23:49 | comment | added | user2357 | Nazi Germany was not solely reliant on the Vermork plant in Norway. There was a sister plant at Saheim and a similar Montecanteni Plant in the Italian Alps. The Germans also had the Linde plant near Munich, the IG Farben Leuna plant at Mersberg, the Geib Sulfide plant near Kiel. The Nazis were swimming in Deuterium by late 1944, but allowed the Allies and even their own people to believe the Hydro sinking had ended their chances to mislead their enemy and conceal that the nuclear project was still in progress. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 23:41 | comment | added | user2357 | Averroes it is not H2O either. It is D20 = Deuterium Oxide | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 23:40 | comment | added | user2357 | Harteck disclosed after the war that the Germans knew of the attack on the Hydro ferry in advance and allowed the shipment to go ahead, whilst the bulk of a 6.5 tonne shipment made it from Norway to Dr Karl Wirtz's laboratory in Silesia six weeks after the Hydro was sunk. | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 21:05 | history | edited | sds | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
replace the wrong description of heavy water with a link
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| Feb 12, 2014 at 9:48 | comment | added | Averroes | Heavy water is not H2O2 (this is Hydrogen peroxide) but H2O being the Hydrogen atoms an isotope (Deuterium) that has one proton and one neutron instead the usual hydrogen atom that onlye have one proton. | |
| Mar 11, 2013 at 18:05 | comment | added | Tom Au | @T.E.D.: Heisenberg, Fermi, and America's Robert Oppenheimer were about the same age; Einstein and Bohr were of "mentor" age. Of the world's five best atomic scientists, three worked for the U.S. (Einstein, Fermi, and Oppenheimer), one (Bohr) was "neutral" (until 1943 when he escaped to England) and one Heisenberg was "questionable." Key line from another site financialsensearchive.com/editorials/au/2006/0509.html "The persecution of Jewish scientists like Einstein, Fermi and Bohr tipped the balance in the Allies' favor." | |
| Mar 11, 2013 at 17:49 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | Well, even geniuses can make honest mistakes. However, I like the idea of him doing it on purpose much better, so I'm happy to leave it at that until told otherwise. :-) | |
| Mar 11, 2013 at 17:32 | comment | added | Tom Au | @T.E.D. Here's a link to wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg. I remember seeing the "Niels Bohr" play about 20 years ago, and got it from there, not a book. Now you see why I believe that Heisenberg (a Nobel Prize winnter), "knew what he was doing." What he did't know, he didn't want to know. | |
| Mar 11, 2013 at 17:05 | comment | added | Tangurena | @T.E.D., Richard Rhodes wrote 2 books on the history of atomic weapons (The History of the Atomic Bomb, and Dark Sun) which go into more detail than you probably want. Heisenburg miscalculated the "mean free path" (the average distance a neutron can travel before colliding with a nucleus), and according to his calculations about all the U-235 in the world was needed to make a single atom bomb. Because of his status, no one would question his calculations. | |
| Mar 11, 2013 at 16:23 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | Wow. Can you dig up links for any of this? I'd love to read more. | |
| Mar 9, 2013 at 17:21 | comment | added | Tom Au | Actually, Fermi wasn't Jewish. But his WIFE was. And that was (bad) "enough" for the Nazis to have him ostracized in the European atomic world. | |
| Mar 9, 2013 at 17:06 | history | answered | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |