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BBKing · 16-03-2005, 23:47

Although Heisenberg's error* was so obvious that he ran a great risk that someone would point it out and he would be exposed as deceiving the country He was speaking to leading Nazis at the time.

Just been re-reading the relevant section in 'Most Secret War' - by the time Kralsch says they were exploding bombs in Thuringen and Ruegen the scientists and their equipment had been driven out of Hamburg and Berlin by the bombing, and wound up in Hechingen, near Stuttgart, at the opposite end of the country, where they eventually surrendered to the US Army at the end of April. Another anomaly that shouts 'BS' to me.

* assuming it's the one about the need for rate of neutron escape to be small compared with the rate of neutron creation for critical mass - Heisenberg calculated something like 40 tons of U235 for a bomb, which was ludicrous.

16-03-2005, 23:47	#12
BBKing R.I.P. Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London Services: 20Mb VM CM, Virgin TV Posts: 5,983	Re: Hitler had a nuke? Although Heisenberg's error* was so obvious that he ran a great risk that someone would point it out and he would be exposed as deceiving the country He was speaking to leading Nazis at the time. Just been re-reading the relevant section in 'Most Secret War' - by the time Kralsch says they were exploding bombs in Thuringen and Ruegen the scientists and their equipment had been driven out of Hamburg and Berlin by the bombing, and wound up in Hechingen, near Stuttgart, at the opposite end of the country, where they eventually surrendered to the US Army at the end of April. Another anomaly that shouts 'BS' to me. * assuming it's the one about the need for rate of neutron escape to be small compared with the rate of neutron creation for critical mass - Heisenberg calculated something like 40 tons of U235 for a bomb, which was ludicrous.