>One of those Dean befriended was German engineer Heinz Schlicke, who developed infrared fuses that could be used to trigger an atomic bombhttps://www.npr.org/2008/08/18/93649575/former-gis-spill-secrets-of-wwii-pow-campExplain this, especially if Germany had no atomic program of note which is what American propaganda tells us.I dare you.
>>65264198Specialty in subject areas does not mean feasible societal project that required entire components that were not feasible for Krauts to build
>>65264198The Germans did have an atomic weapons program, it just never came to fruition for various reasons. They were talking with the same Belgian who provided Uranium to us, and we even had a commando raid on one of their heavy water facilities.
>>65264208Like what? Sure, Americans could build a hundred thousand bombers with piston engines, but Germans could build rockets that traveled to the edge of space, which was decades ahead of anything Americans could do (which is why America had to import tens of thousands of Nazi scientists)Do you REALLY believe they spent resources and building infrared fuses to trigger nukes without actually developing nukes?I know US propaganda tries to paint them as literal retards but it was a country of Texas that held out against the rest of the world for nearly a decade, cope and seethe.Not to mention that all the jews working on the Manhattan project like von Neumann and Oppenheimer were educated in Germany lol, not the US
>>65264198In principal any electrical switch could be used to trigger an atomic bomb. Either the interviewee or the interviewer was sensationalizing. Also neither of them would have really been qualified to understand anything that Schlicke, an extremely talented electrical engineer and later IEEE fellow, was talking about.
What incident has befallen the global south to prompt this slide thread?
>>65264216The atomic program certainly was delayed because of espionage (we know that Peenemunde was known to the Allies since at least 1942, the guy behind the Watefall rocket, Walter Thiel, was literally killed in an airstrike there)Much less is known about the atomic program, in great part because its existence is largely being denied since pretty much the end of WW2, but the sites were bombed too.But if you look up the guy the American Mainstream news outlet mentions, Heinz Schlicke, you will find out that he was on board of Uboat U-234, which was supposed to bring secret weapons to Japan but surrendered to the US instead. Interestingly enough it had Uranium on board.The heavy water sabotage is well known.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotageBut who is that Belgian you are talking about?
>>65264236Early uranium enrichment was a three-step process. Step 2 required the largest building in the world. Step 3 required pic related.>When it was built in 1944, the four-story K-25 gaseous diffusion plant was the world's largest building, comprising over 5,264,000 square feet (489,000 m2) of floor space and a volume of 97,500,000 cubic feet (2,760,000 m3).
>>65264267The guy who had a line on uranium mining in the Congo, presumably.
>>65264277>After the scientists were released from Soviet captivity in 1956,[1] Gernot Zippe was surprised to find that engineers in the West were years behind in their centrifuge technology. He was able to reproduce his design at the University of Virginia in the United States, publishing the results, even though the Soviets had confiscated his notes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifugeThe soviets ended up with enrichment methods way ahead of the west in the 50s.Do you believe that the soviets let German scientists carry out original research? That's not how it was. They took them to Russia, learned from them, then sent them back.They had their own Operation Paperclip just to snatch German atomic scientists.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Alsos
>>65264236The Manhattan Project was so big we quite literally gimped the entire DoD budget to finance the project
>I have no gas and I must seetheCan't wait to see your fps debut op!
