So I guess you're saying the scores of Nazi documents captured by ALSOS at Strasbourg University in 1944 were just a mere work of fiction. Why then were all these documents diligently filed and classified for decades after the war at NARA?
'found a great treasure trove of documents, including letters exchanged between the various physicists reporting on their progress along with the addresses of the various institutes throughout Germany that had been working on the nuclear project. This latter discovery was, of course, of extreme importance. When ...Goudsmit and Wardenburg cried out with excitement. "What happened?" asked one of the guards...[win the lottery?] "I think so," Goudsmit replied, for it appeared from the documents that there was no longer any possibility Germany might suddenly produce an atomic bomb. "We've won the war!" "Sure we have," said the guard. "You can't beat GIs."
...in Gordsmits words, the documents "gave an authentic picture of the uranium research project as of the summer of 1944." Hitler, convinced of German invincibility and blindly disinterested in long range projects, had been informed as far back as 1942 that an atomic bomb was within the realm of possibility, but he had persisted in giving the project low priority. As a result, two years later, when the Strasbourg papers fell into allied hands, it became clear that, though the Germans had continued nuclear research, they had "given up altogether the idea of making a bomb."
And that's direct from the scientist who read the Strasburg papers.
It being the first week in September I would have thought schools would be back in session nearly worldwide and the board would see less bleating about Nazi napkinwaffe. Sadly, boobery knows no season...![]()
Ah, but once you read the man's thread in Chat...
... and conspiracies know no season.
Yeah...ooohhh yeah... Any POD would make this have to be a POD where the Nazi aren't after the extermination of the Jews, but the simple disenfranchisement of their right to own certain amounts of wealth or something else closer to reason. Keep Einstein and a few others there and Germany could very well be the first to have the bomb. The POD would have to be something were Hitler takes power earlier. Sadly, if war comes about and Hitler holds the nukes for a while to give Britain a chance and Churchill still pulls his schtick, then London and a few other cities could get glassed.You all underestimating Hitler's ass. Hitler's ass was actually a gateway to hammerspace containing things like UFOs, and all the resources needed for Sealion or an invasion of the US to succeed. The only reason he didn't make use of this in OTL was because he was feeling kind and it was a bit painful. If Hitler really wanted the A-bomb, all he needed was to pull it out of his ass.
Keep Einstein....
I'm sure this question has been asked ad nauseum here. In fact, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that I am 100% certain this has been asked too many times here. That said, I just have one question that is bugging me right now. I know of technological and scientific limitations the Nazis had that prevented a successful program from arising. As this is an alt history board, let's handwave a few things away. #1: Let us assume the Nazis had the technological know-how; in fact let's assume that they were the furthest along the research in the world, far more advanced in technological know-how. #2: Let us assume that the Nazis were also the most advanced in the world in the sciece, the theory of atomic bomb, than anyone else. With these two givens, I ask you all: What MATERIEL (uranium, some other rare metals/substances, economic capacity, etc) limitations would have prevented the Nazis from completing their program? In addition, were these materiel limitations overcomable?
I simply cannot understand why many people think that certain technologies or inventions can only be developed by certain nations/persons.
It is always possible that any kind of inventions can be developed by any nations/persons.
All those inventors are the same humans who happen to find that particular invention due to certain circumstances/coincidence.
They are not some kind of superhuman or demigod or whatever
I simply cannot understand why many people think that certain technologies or inventions can only be developed by certain nations/persons.
It is always possible that any kind of inventions can be developed by any nations/persons.
All those inventors are the same humans who happen to find that particular invention due to certain circumstances/coincidence.
They are not some kind of superhuman or demigod or whatever
I simply cannot understand why many people think that certain technologies or inventions can only be developed by certain nations/persons.
It is always possible that any kind of inventions can be developed by any nations/persons.
All those inventors are the same humans who happen to find that particular invention due to certain circumstances/coincidence.
They are not some kind of superhuman or demigod or whatever
Germany after '43 was quite sure that a nuclear weapon would require several hundred kilos of uranium to achieve critical mass.