Unfortunately, this author has never read the “Farmington Notes”. Farmington was where the German nuclear scientists were kept after the war and spied on by the allies. The scientists were stunned by the bomb dropped in Japan and were besides themselves for not knowing the weapon could be built. They did not have a clue that it could be done!
>> They did not have a clue that it could be done!
They seemed to be operating within the vacuum of the Nazi’s nefarious & paranoid schemes.
Upthread, I made reference to the Heavy Water War. If I’m not mistaken, within that film it was mentioned the Nazis failed to embrace the economic advantages of nuclear energy — the Nazi’s downfall was the pursuit of military conquest.