Saturday, November 15, 2008

Nuclear Arsenal of Hitler

An astonishing revelation by History channel says that Germany was a mere 11 days away in executing a holocaust on San Francisco. The bomb technology was not as 'explosive ' as that of US or UK but was still had a potential to kill people by irradiating them to nuclear dust. Knowing about what Hitler did with Jews , Einstien  left Germany and went to US. While all the scientists were buy in making better tanks and other decisive weapons , a group of scientists both in US and Germany was keenly experimenting on radioactive materials.
Some breakthroughs  were achieved by the well known Nobel laureate Hisenburg( yes of the "uncertainity principal"!!) but it seems that either he was too sinister planning a bomb or there was a conscience inside of him that kept him against it. He was the unofficial head of the nuclear plans of Germany. But Hitler had some ideological differences with his 'cliques' in this matter, he still thought of a gun and a tank asa faster method of winning a war (motivated by the "blitzkrieg" ). While much was not done for such ambitious project, some of the senior scientists thought it as a chance for developing a future weapon and thus carried on their hard work. Two years on and they had some concrete results with them but constant espionage by some british military personnel and persistent  effort by US  to make a nuclear bomb added with paucity of funds deterred their efforts.

While the action was reaching its climax a new counterapart of German arsenal emerged, an A4 missile ( evolutionary  ICBMS). While Germans were way ahead of Alliance forced in missile systems (work was done at SKODA WORKS aka SKODA motors - of laura and octavia fame). This resulted asa major setback for Alliance forces and finally US started the "Manhatten Project" in order to beat the opposition's plans going ahead at unrelenting pace. But because the Alliance had finally put a full stop to any nuclear program , Germany sent a U boat to Japan loaded with the fissile material . Although simultaneously the ocuurence of  D-DAY  followed by Hitler's suicide pulverized their stamina to go any furthur. A U boat carrying more than a tonne of uranium was caught on New hampshire by USA . Thus stopping a catastrophic chain of nuclear warfare. But since US became suspicious of Japans plans and also to teach them a lesson of backstabbing (pearl harbor )  , a B29 bomber plane deployed nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 3 days. Rest is clear to the world .
The  German scientists soon moved to either Moscow or Washington , completing what they had started and igniting cold war between US and Russia.

The bone of contention is that scientists like Hisenburg , Niels Bohr( of bohr experiment ) and famous Einstien were also a major players in the effort. Its hard to point at the thespian among them.

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