According to Edward Teller as quoted by John McCarthy, the
> miscalculation may have been intentional.
> See
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> -Andrew
I knew that -- but Heisenberg may have been the only one who also did, at the time. That the decision makers had/were given the wrong info doesn't change the fact that the Germans were in no way "close to having the bomb".
jtaylor wrote:
>>> 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.