Hitler scientists built basic nuclear bombs

Times
From Roger Boyes in Berlin



HITLER’S scientists tested a battlefield nuclear bomb and were close to deploying the so-called “wonder weapon” towards the end of the war, according to a book to be published in Germany this month.

Hundreds of prisoners of war were burned and killed in the tests in 1944 and 1945 which led Hitler to believe that he could win the race for the atomic bomb and tip the war in his favour.

Rainer Karlsch, a social historian, says that the Nazi bomb was never anywhere as strong as the US bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Postwar scholars have therefore tended to discount the likelihood of Hitler having, or being close to having, such a devastating weapon: there seemed to be no physical evidence.

But Dr Karlsch says in Hitler’s Bomb that Germany had built an atomic reactor in Gottow, a village outside Berlin that now amounts to no more than a few chunks of concrete. The Nazis were also, he says, harvesting sufficient nuclear material to build so-called “dirty bombs” whereby tons of conventional explosives are wrapped around a nuclear device. The effect of such bombs is to magnify several thousand times the force of a conventional explosion and Hitler, until close to the end of the war, seemed to be counting on these to drive back the Red Army.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1511154,00.html

Another scientist called it a lot of crap and the others were highly sceptic. But I'm convinced that he was certainly trying.

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Allied sabotage crippled the German bomb effort early on. The Allies knew about Hitler's attempt to build a bomb and slowed it down enough so that he didn't have a chance to get one in time.

Either Dr. Karlsch or the author of this article don't know what a "dirty" bomb is. You can't just wrap conventional exposives around a "nuclear device" to magnify the conventional explosive's force. A dirty bomb just disperses toxic radioactive material around with an explosive. The explosive force of the device is not increased in any way.

The writer was typing out their ass.