US scientists worked feverishly on developing the first atom bomb. They feared Hitler’s Germany was about to build it before them. Later it was reported that the Germans had abandoned their plans. According to new documents, allied military reports and existing construction plans, Hitler had already tested a new kind of nuclear weapon in March 1945. How far did the Germans really get?
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TOO MANY ADDS…I STOPPED AFTER 10MIn ..sorry
not close enough
Its already well known the Germans were no where near making or testing a nuke. America was only able to develop one because they had the time and peace to gather resources. Germany just didnt have access to the materials needed to make a nuke at that time. The Russians learned how to build one from spies they had in the American camp. In Rocket tech the Germans were miles ahead of everyone else. Would have even been more ahead had Germany saw its worth in the 1930s. Rockets were not seen as a weapon of total war in the 1930s because they were so small.
48:54 if the government tells you to stop digging, that means you're on the right path. Its obvious that the yanks found what they were looking for there in the 40s
Where is Tyrrhenia?
The Germans could figure out the science and design for an atomic weapon. What they lacked was spare industrial capacity needed to be diverted to produce enough fissile material. Just remember the immense scale of the plants here in the USA that for the time could barely produce material for a handful of bombs. At the same time in the war the German war economy was in no position to create such massive plants in secret nor secure them.
Why do you think that to this day the number one concern about Iran's nuclear program is their uranium centrifuge capacity? It's because the most difficult part of the construction of a nuclear weapon to implement is producing fissile material.
Total speculation. To build the bomb the Americans had to build a complete town. 180 000 people and scientists were involved. No evidence of this.
Not a single mention of the heavy water plant that the Nazi's had in Norway dramatized in the movie 'The Heroes Of Telemark'
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Next generation of imbeciles are always one lie away…
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At the time, Uranium bombs weren't practical. The Germans knew this. It took the U.S. 2 years and $billions just make 1 Uranium bomb. More people died in the bombing of Tokyo than Hiroshima. For the time and money required, conventional bombs were more effective. The Plutonium bomb changed all this. Plutonium took much less time and money to make. After Hiroshima, all atomic bombs were made with Plutonium. So the question is: Did Germany know a Plutonium bomb was practical? From what I've seen, the answer is no. If I remember correctly, comments from German scientists just after the Nagasaki bombing seemed to indicate they were still thinking this was a Uranium bomb.
Civilian targets. How is this not war crime ?
There are no "secrets" on this topic. The German effort for nukes, led by Werner Heisenberg, didn't come close to ever producing a weapon.
Shabby clickbait. NO "secrets"…
Who cares he's dead
Ads make me wanna commit bad things
Why did they put lipstick on the men they interviewed?
Germany did not have the resources to produce fissile materials. The US did only by assembling the equivalent of the auto industry with a cast of thousands directed by a very capable inner circle of dedicated scientists and engineers.
https://youtu.be/T3tbPE7gxwc
It took 25% of all energy produced in the United states between 1941 and 44 to produce 2 atomic bombs !
It also took all of the silver , so German could not afford to do it or produce enough energy for one bomb !
Germany wouldn´t have developed the nuke even if they had won the war.
The Nazis considered atomic-science to be "jewish" (that´s not a joke) and therefore refused to do any work in that sector.
Not very
Nazis remind me of the Borg from Star Trek
There is some thought that the Germans developed something on the line of a small "Dirty Bomb", but the radius of destruction was very small. Also, they were experimenting on some "secret" technologies that are in today's scientist's dreams. They had the math but lacked the resources in materials and technology to develop beyond paper. Although the Germans accomplished much – World Conquest – they never had the resources or manufacturing technologies to achieve their goals. They also had too many "Pokers in the Fire" in developing efficiency for their War Machine. Thanks.
Wow thank god that the US done all of that on its own. Thanks again for saving the whole world single-handedly 🤦♂️😂
US scientist yes but European scientists & mathematicians. It was not only US scientists by any means. Germany failed to get close, partly because their Jewish & other scientists fled Germany. This documentary is a fake.
Absolutely stupid premise. Hitler‘s scientist were not even close to developing nuclear weapons. Neither did Germany have the enormous infrastructure that the United States had to produce fissionable material. The only reason the Soviet union developed an atomic bomb so promptly was because of espionage.
Stop calling it World War 2. Its European War 2 or White War 2.
V2 was supposed to be used on Paris as well as London ?
Do t think so
They were being launched from occupied France , why would they fire them on an occupied city ?
Who narrates this?
Long story short, the US stole the key scientist from Germany.
If true, this casts a whole new reason for the Allies 'Germany first' argument…particularly where the US wanted to deal with Japan themselves and then changed their mind so that Europe wasn't a race between only between the British and the Russians.
someone has to put a stop to this man
Now Ik why the special guns on cod zombies are called wonder weapons