70th anniversary of atomic bombing of Hiroshima

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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

interesting discussion.

I read in "Wages of Destruction", that by early 1942, both Speer and Friedrich Fromm (of Valkyrie fame, but at that time chief of Army Armament) had both been briefed by German scientists and well understood the potential of the atomic bomb, but both came to the conclusion that Germany could not afford to spend billions on a weapon that would take years to develop.

One documentary I saw once, when Discovery was still about documentaries, was that they found out after the war, that the Germans went about building the bomb completely wrong and would never had worked.


@Alex: you realise that the Nazi eguenics principle would not let you live ??
Jews, gypsies and Slavs were not the only ones on the list. Mental cases were also on the kill list.