Posted on 12/17/2015 8:23:55 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Ya done good by those men Archy ..... God Bless Ya !!
OK, But Germany had neither the resources or the manpower to build a fission weapon in WW2.
Had the Germans simply fallen back to the Rhine and attempted to hold that line, they would almost certainly have been better off. The Allies expected as much trouble crossing the Rhine as they had crossing the English Channel.
But after the Bulge, when the Allies reached the Rhine in March 1945, the Germans had no mobile reserves with which to hold it. They were destroyed in Belgium.
As it turned out. Somebody thank the Eighth Air Force for their part in that, sil vous plait.
But of course, the Haigerloch material shows that without such interference they could indeed have created a sustaining fission pile, and could have easily come up with a *dirty bomb*- a very dirty bomb.
Just like Japan was trying to deliver to San Francisco in mid- August, 1946.
Bump!
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