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a) It seems Fermi only left Italy because of the increased Nazification of Italy, seen in the Manifesto Of Race that was enacted to further bridge Italy and Germany (his wife was Jewish). Many members of Fermi's Via Panisperna boys were Jewish too, so also in a compromised position. Is it possible Mussolini would not have pushed in racial laws to placate Germany? Did doing so really make much of a difference between Italo-German relations? Would not doing so really sour relations?
b) How would this have affected Uranverein? Would there have been a joint Italian-German nuclear weapons project? Would that have resulted in head-butting, having Jews working in an Axis nuclear project, let alone the complications of "Jewish physics"? How badly would that go?
c) If Fermi and his crew did manage to get joint Italo-German resources and cash for the nuclear project, could it have changed the course of the war? Could there have been a successful Axis nuke? Could this have happened realistically?
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