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Hitler's nuclear weapon

06/03/2005 8:56 AM

Physics World has published the specs of a primitive plutonium fission bomb designed by the Nazi regime during the Second World War. It goes on to speculate that they actually built one and tested it on concentration camp inmates in 1945. Scary to think what could have happened if they started to mass produce these devices and strapped them onto V2 rockets. Might have changed the outcome of the war.

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Industrial Archaeology

06/03/2005 10:09 AM

This is a great article with some very compelling (and disturbing) evidence. Still, the existence of a schematic only proves intent - not ability. After all, the Nazis had many experimental weapons on the drawing board at war's end. The author could strengthen his case by expanding his discussion of the "industrial archaeology" performed in eastern Germany.

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Plutonium bomb patent!?

06/03/2005 12:50 PM

So does the US government owe the decendents of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker for patent infringement?

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