Oh, jeez.Muttley wrote:...Heisenberg...
So how about von Ardenne? That guy got the Stalin-medal for his work on the soviet bomb. Or von Weizsäcker? Or Wirtz? Diebner? Harteck? Döpel? von Laue? Bothe? Gentner? Korsching? Joos? .... a hundred names more, or more.
<max arrogance>Muttley wrote:The unnamed paper you once read was wrong.
You´re talking to an engineer of the very nation that developed nuclear fission.
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Mebbe´ for Heisenberg.Muttley wrote:It was not technically possible for the Nazi program to produce a nuclear bomb.
But that paper analysed the max possibility (and possible drawbacks) if everything would have worked out as planned (which is more or less unlikely due to various uncertanties) and was max funded.
The Manhattan project was about 2bn$ (26bn$ in todays money), which would not have been out of reach for Germany. We´re no poor hillbillies, and we weren´t back then.
Is that so? So why did your glory royal navy then leave behind 1500+ survivors of the Bismarck to die?Muttley wrote:Naval warfare is a bloody business, and sailors will almost always pick up survivors from either side once the battle is done, acknowledging a deeper bond between all those that go down to the sea in ships.