> It was so obvious the whole German uranium set up was on a ludicrously small scale. Here was the central group of laboratories, and all it amounted to was a little cave, a wing of a small textile factory, a few rooms in an old brewery. To be sure, the laboratories were well equipped, but compared to what we were doing in the United States it was still small-time stuff
Thank God the Germans didn't realize the potential there or the world would have looked very differently now. It's not as if they didn't have the technical chops to make something like this work. They even had working jet fighters.
Sometimes I wonder if Heisenberg secretly took them on the scenic route. Because his whole uranium cubes on strings thing looks a bit contrived.
Unknown to the allied until the very end of WWII, nazi scientists had discovered by accident a multitude of nerve agents before and during the war including in 1938 the now very infamous Sarin gas.
Despite having been mass produced and being ready for use during the entire war, it luckily never was. Had it been, it is likely the war would have lasted much longer and would have been much deadlier, it is also likely the first nuclear bomb would have been dropped on Berlin.
When WWII came to an end most of the supply and manufacturing plants were captured by the soviets and put back into production.
Thank God the Germans didn't realize the potential there or the world would have looked very differently now. It's not as if they didn't have the technical chops to make something like this work. They even had working jet fighters.
Sometimes I wonder if Heisenberg secretly took them on the scenic route. Because his whole uranium cubes on strings thing looks a bit contrived.