If Britain stays out of WWII - what happens to the US?

longsword14

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Rockets had been around for a while. Atom stuff was something too small to see on a lab bench.
As in selling radical ideas. Anyone could have looked at the payload and realised just how little return it gave for the investment in the project. Yet, things were developed anyway.
Getting even a fraction of the input, major breakthroughs in reactor technology would have been possible. If they get that break, then suddenly things look much rosier (uranium and plutonium were considered as fissile materials, only plutonium was not named as such).
 
Rocket tech in Germany was already rather well along, they reached V2 testing in early 1942 with viable launch in October of that year.

My understanding is that Germany *was* initially ahead of the Western Allies until about 1941 when the facilities for uranium purification in Germany were bombed and destroyed.
 
As in selling radical ideas. Anyone could have looked at the payload and realised just how little return it gave for the investment in the project. Yet, things were developed anyway.
Getting even a fraction of the input, major breakthroughs in reactor technology would have been possible. If they get that break, then suddenly things look much rosier (uranium and plutonium were considered as fissile materials, only plutonium was not named as such).

I do remember descriptions of Hitler dismissing the reports about the possibilities of atomic energy as "Jewish Physics". Conversely the nazis had showcased aeronautical engineering propagandizing it as a example of Aryan superiority. Maybe the answer touches on that.
 
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