The Russians Get the Bomb First

Jasen777

Donor
You could have a spectacular American accident (or perhaps be a victim of sabotage) that sets the program back a year or two. That, along with everything going right for Russia might be enough.
 

Kiwiguy

Banned
In actual fact Stalin had a nuclear physicist installed in Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons project. The Dutch physicist Fritz Houtermans was working on a plutonium bomb (suitably hampered by Heisenberg's inability to sustain fission).

At the Tehran conference of 1943 Roosevelt and Stalin formed an agreement that post war they would together dismantle European colonies around the world. Roosevelt despised the British.

According to a 1950s autobiography, "Major Jordan's Diaries," Roosevelt shared nuclear technology with Stalin and shipped uranium oxide to Russia under lend lease. The British forbade Canadian uranium being sent to Russia however, Roosevelt re-shipped it under lend lease and concealed this from the British.

In June/July 1944 two convoys Special group 300 and Special group 301 sailed from New Jersey to Persia with secretive loads. These convoys were targeted by the Monsoon group of long range U-boats in the Indian Ocean. One the SS John Barry was sunk by U-859 with what may well have been a cargo of Uranium oxide for Stalin's nuclear project.

In 1995-96 there was a CIA backed deep sea recovery of SS John Barry by an ostensibly private group to recover silver coins. The depths of this recovery and costs were so great that the silver coins recovered could never have accounted for the true cost.

The real purpose was recovery of it's uranium oxide cargo. An issue so sensitive that it would unravel Anglo-US relations like a zipper if ever admitted.

Stalin was not so far off creating an A-bomb as is supposed.

During WW2 Nazi scientists developed the gaseous centrifuge Harteck process, now employed by Pakistan and Iran.
 
Top