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Originally posted by dowot
Doing a little web digging, I came upon the following.
www.dailymail.co.uk...
Under the heading, "Nazi nuclear waste from Hitler's secret A-bomb programme found in mine" dated July 2011.it goes on to describe that 126,000 barrels of nuclear waste have been uncovered in a disused salt mine.
No idea if 126,000 barrels equates to 1,2,3 or more possible bombs, seems to me like a lot of waste.
I also can not understand the comments made about drilling?
Originally posted by dowot
Further digging, came across an interesting interchange of words in another book I have been reading (Too much spare time I guess)
"Hitler's rocket soldiers, by Barber & Keur pub. Tattered Flag 2011)
Page 69 a conversation, overheard by a certain Helmuth Frenk who was employed in testing the V2 and was fairly senior. " ....Frank clearly recollected overhearing a most illuminating conversation that took place between von Braun and a visiting dignitary: "Once by accident, I overheard an exchange between von Braun and a visitor, who asked: "Why do you not use an atomic bomb in the V2?" With a sneer, von Braun replied: "Because we do not have one!"
Who the visitor was is not revealed and the date is also not made clear.
Also within the paragraph, it is also suggested that, "....Frenk never heard of any attempt to use phosphorus as was sometimes rumoured. Similarly, the use of biological or chemical weapons, as far as he was aware, was simply not considered."
The history of the V2 is very interesting, with ideas of atmosphere skimming piloted craft able to bomb the US. No wonder there was an explosion of inventions post war.
Re your " Also the British 21st Army found a lot of nuclear material at Gardermoen airfield Norway in 1945 and took it out to sea in a basin south of Bornholm and dumped it there using a former LST." Not sure that does not sum up the UK's lack of foresight then as well as now.
Thoroughly recomend a read of that book, brings to light some of the Axis thinking.
Originally posted by Swing80s
Well I remember hearing a lot about either a dirty bomb or a small nuke tested near the end of the war by germany near that town up north on quite a few different sources. Apparently they did use Russian POW's as guinea pigs. I think that it was a small nuke that they tested out just to see if it worked because they had probably such a small stockpile of uranium they couldn't make another one.
...I believe if they would have had more than one that they knew worked that they would have defintely used it on London or in Antwerp unless they wanted to team up with the west against the Russians in which case they would have nuked the eastern front and made a big deal out of it. And I believe no matter what they would have found some sort of system to deploy it.
Originally posted by dowot
Hi all.
Japan trying for German/Russian peace? That's new, where is that bit of info. from?
I uncovered a Russian site,
military.tomsk.ru...
Which on page 2 shows an underwater launch of a rocket, sorry I have no idea what it says about it, but go to page 3 and there is an illustration of an underwater, towed by sub, rocket.
If that was for real, surely that would have been a better way to bomb the US?
I did see an illustration that the bomb from the "Silverbird" would create an explosion likened to the effect of an atom bomb. Looks like they almost had a full scale mock up built, hidden in Lofer (Spelling may be off) which the US uncovered.
When you start digging you find so much.
Keep going Sy, the truth will out someday and it will surprise I am sure.
Originally posted by pikestaff
The Allies never found anything in Germany after the war ended (1939-1945) to suggest that the Germans had built an atomic bomb, there wasn't even a working nuclear pile.
Originally posted by dowot
Another reference is from the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk...
" I remember talk about Hitler's 'secret weapon', but we didn't take much notice. Actually I believe it was the atomic bomb, heaven help us, but I later learned that some of our agents blew up his 'heavy water' in Norway, and held up progress. Occasionally we used to cycle to and from school over the hill. Towards the end of the war stacks of large bombs were stored at the side of the road on top of the hill. We were told that they were gas bombs. This surprised us but didn't actually worry us. I believed at the time that they were already loaded with gas, but now I wonder."
Jennifer de Villiers, I was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 7th September 1928 and was just about to turn 11 when the war broke out on 3rd September 1939.
So maybe the threat by Churchill to use gas, if the Germans did not give up the atomic bomb threat, has more credence.
Got a feeling there is more to be discovered.
Originally posted by dashdespatch
Operation epsilon in which all of the top german atomic scientists we imprisoned in a bugged British Mi6 safe house came to the conclusion that the Germans were a long way off having a useable aa bomb
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by drock905
I never bought the idea that Germany had the bomb. Granted they were researching it but to actually start production they needed a giant infrastructure. When you research the manhattan project the shear size of the Program is astounding. I think there would have been obvious traces left after the war too large to cover up, considering that the us literally had to build large towns just to house the people working on the project.