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Flubflow · 16-03-2005, 20:47

The Germans were so far away from being capable of building/testing a device that they decided it would be better to load their precious uranium plus two experts on a submarine and go to Japan with it (U-234 I think). Germany surrendered before the submarine even got to Japan (and we knew about too it thanks to breaking their codes). It's difficult to be precise but based on what we already know of early US efforts, Germany was probably at least 2 more years from testing a potential nuclear weapon package nevermind constructing the actual bomb.

16-03-2005, 20:47	#10
Flubflow Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Teesside Posts: 1,566	Re: Hitler had a nuke? The Germans were so far away from being capable of building/testing a device that they decided it would be better to load their precious uranium plus two experts on a submarine and go to Japan with it (U-234 I think). Germany surrendered before the submarine even got to Japan (and we knew about too it thanks to breaking their codes). It's difficult to be precise but based on what we already know of early US efforts, Germany was probably at least 2 more years from testing a potential nuclear weapon package nevermind constructing the actual bomb.