posted on Apr, 17 2009 @ 07:44 AM
reply to post by lunarminer
The Nazis had a bomb program and tried to build a crude reactor. We also know that the Nazis sent at least 20 shipments of U-235 to Japan. The last
one was the U-234 incident that surrendered to the US after Germany was defeated.
A bomb program is just that, a program!
NO, we don’t know the Germans shipped TWENTY shipments of U235 to Japan. (Unless you are talking MICROgrams).
We think we know the Germans shipped uranium ore at least one time, in TWENTY individual containers of PURIFIED Uranium to Japan. Yellow cake. 99.7%
U238, 0.3% U235. That would have been very helpful to Japan which had no source of uranium ore. It was most likely for industrial purposes and
research but definitely it was NOT for making bombs.
It is not so much that we discovered the atomic bomb secrets, it was that we and we alone had developed the technological process to enrich uranium to
weapons garde. We had the industrial and financial resources to do the job in the time frame we needed it done.
In fact, we used TWO methods to make a bomb. The U235 method at Oak Ridge and the plutonium (neutron bombarded uranium) at Hanford. BOTH worked but
Oak Ridge made 2 bombs to the 1 from Hanford.
The 2nd great hurdle was how to make a bomb. When you reach the critical mass the chain reaction begins and cannot be halted. In a few nano-seconds,
the whole thing has reacted and you have the atomic bomb!
But the catch is HOW to carry 2 pieces of metal (uranium is a metal) far enough apart not to equal a clinical mass, and then, at the moment of your
choice, to put the two together into ONE. You slam them together, but slam TOO hard and the metal shatters and you have a pile of uranium trash, but
NOT hard enough and you still have 2 separate pieces. Like Goldilocks, it has to be done JUST right! And that is not easy.
Hey! Don't forget when the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, a fair part of their artillery and supply wagons were HORSE-DRAWN!
[edit on 4/17/2009 by donwhite]