Re: Hiroshima Marks 60th Anniversary of Atomic Bomb Attack

Aug 10, 2005 0 Replies


The Germans were pretty much on their way to having their own atomic > weapons.


The stuff I've read (Farm Hall transcripts, for instance) says no, they were working on a pile, not bombs. They miscalculated the amount of fissionable material necessary and so thought they could not


a) get enough; b) if not a), get such a big bomb to anywhere it would do them any good.

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