January 11th, 2005  
redcoat
Centurion
 
 

Post; Re: How close did the Germans come to nuking the US?


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Originally Posted by gibbs
Whilst watching some programme on TV i saw an advert come up saying something on the lines of "this programme takes a look at how close the Germans came to nuking the US and shows hitlers nuclear power".
Obviously this is 2nd world war. So..?
By 1943, thanks to the chief German nuclear scientist getting his maths wrong,(on how much nuclear material would be needed to make a bomb work) the Germans had stopped all serious work on building a nuclear device.
So to the answer to how close had Germany came to nuking the US, is......not very

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