[Cvengr]

There were some sharper German, actually Prussian scientists who came here after the war. Or as they would say after displaying a week long mathematical argument on the boards, Yah, Yah,..If ve hahd dis methud bahck in the day ov da V-2, Ve'd all be speaking German now,,...Yah?

[RedRover]

Or as Tom Lehrer sang back in 1965...

Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down?
"It's not my department," says Werner von Braun.

[ReignOfError]

There were some sharper German, actually Prussian scientists who came here after the war.

WvB wasn't the best scientist on the project; neither was Robert Oppenheimer. Where they both excelled was at recruiting people smarter than them, organizing their efforts, and selling ideas that seemed pretty out-there at the time to the politicians who provided their funding.