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Re: Hiroshima Marks 60th Anniversary of Atomic Bomb Attack


jtaylor (jtaylor@deletethis.hfx.andara.com)
Tue, 9 Aug 2005 22:06:25 -0300

Tony P. <kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net> wrote in message
news:telecom24.361.15@telecom-digest.org...

> The Germans were pretty much on their way to having their own atomic
> weapons.

The stuff I've read (Farm Hall transcripts, for instance) says no,
they were working on a pile, not bombs. They miscalculated the amount
of fissionable material necessary and so thought they could not

a) get enough;
b) if not a), get such a big bomb to anywhere it would do them any good.

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