I don't understand why electronics has anything to do with time travel. Was just hoping you had something to offer other than saying we're all
wasting our time here on ATS.
Sigh.
Originally posted by ipsedixit
At the moment I am trying to get used to the idea that the Germans actually built and tested atom bombs during WW2 and that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima may have been a German bomb. The rest of the book is going to have to be outstanding to top that information. So far it looks like another great Jim Marrs book.
These criticisms of the Germans' scientific incompetence are apparently reinforced by the Farm Hall conversations, which reveal that Heisenberg initially responded to the news of Hiroshima with a flawed calculation of critical mass, although within a few days he had improved it and provided a very good estimate. However, there was other evidence that, no matter how Heisenberg responded at Farm Hall, he and his colleagues understood that atomic bombs would use fast-neutron chain reactions and that both plutonium and uranium-235 were fissionable materials.
For example, in February 1942 the German army officials who were responsible for weapons development described the progress of the uranium project in a report entitled "Energy production from uranium". This overview, which was discovered in the 1980s, drew upon all classified material from Hahn, Harteck, Heisenberg and the other scientists working on the project. The report concluded that pure uranium-235 - which forms just 0.7% of natural uranium, the rest being non-fissionable uranium-238 - would be a nuclear explosive a million times more powerful than conventional explosives. It also argued that a nuclear reactor, once operating, could be used to make plutonium, which would be an explosive of comparable force. The critical mass of such a weapon would be "around 10-100 kg", which was comparable to the Allies' estimate from 6 November 1941 of 2-100 kg that is recorded in the official history of the Manhattan Project - the so-called Smyth report.
Originally posted by TerraX
I saw a documentary once on the Discovery Channel where secret allied military units where on the hunt for German scientists in the final stages of the war. They even caught the head scientist and the reactor they were building and it turned out the scientists were on the wrong track constructing an a-bomb.
Originally posted by ipsedixit
The pilot referred to in one of my earlier posts mentioned something about being surprised that "they" would test something like that so close to inhabited areas, but as history has shown there was very little, if anything, that "they" wouldn't do.
the device exploded with an energy equivalent to around 20 kilotons of TNT (90 TJ). It left a crater of radioactive glass in the desert 10 feet (3 meters) deep and 1,100 ft (330 meters) wide.... The shock wave was felt over 100 miles (160 km) away, and the mushroom cloud reached 7.5 miles (12 km) in height.