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RE: U234 and German Atomic bomb
Posted by:
MCE
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Date: June 09, 2000 04:27PM
History was not changed. Here are only a few of the reasons why:
- It takes time to sail all the way to to Japan.
- Giving the Japanese a partial bomb (notice that you'd have to have one first) is one thing, having them use it before the US bombs are ready is quite another.
- Don't even imagine in your wildest dreams that the US needed the cargo of U234 to finish their own bombs. And even if so, that they could have remotely done it in the time available before August 6.
- And no, the US did not finish any German bombs and then use them on the Japanese either. For a start, they'd have to be given two of them, not one. Next, it takes time to understand and exploit the design of a complex device like this, even if the inventor (who, by the way, in most cases is not one of the engineers who actually do the designing work) comes with it.
Sometimes it's amazing what kind of stories people will invent. It's even more amazing how little concern these story inventors have for making their brain child sound even remotely realistic.
- It takes time to sail all the way to to Japan.
- Giving the Japanese a partial bomb (notice that you'd have to have one first) is one thing, having them use it before the US bombs are ready is quite another.
- Don't even imagine in your wildest dreams that the US needed the cargo of U234 to finish their own bombs. And even if so, that they could have remotely done it in the time available before August 6.
- And no, the US did not finish any German bombs and then use them on the Japanese either. For a start, they'd have to be given two of them, not one. Next, it takes time to understand and exploit the design of a complex device like this, even if the inventor (who, by the way, in most cases is not one of the engineers who actually do the designing work) comes with it.
Sometimes it's amazing what kind of stories people will invent. It's even more amazing how little concern these story inventors have for making their brain child sound even remotely realistic.