Confederacy Was Building Atomic Bomb... 80 Years Before WW2

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[Rodney King]

Civil War historians are reeling over the discovery that a Confederate scientist was just weeks away from perfecting a crude atomic bomb -- and planned to use the device to destroy Washington, D.C., 138 years ago . . . in 1864!

Physicist Thaddeus McMullen was killed before he could carry out the plot, reveals Joel Remarsh, a Civil War historian who uncovered McMullen’s maniacal plan while studying a collection of war-era journals, letters and documents given to him by McMullen’s descendants.

“My blood ran cold when I realized what I was reading,” says Remarsh, who plans to reveal all in a book tentatively titled Southern Victory: The Confederacy’s Atomic War.

“Thaddeus McMullen was a plantation slave-owner who loathed Abraham Lincoln and was willing to do anything to ensure a Confederate victory.

“He was also a brilliant researcher and scientist -- in league with Albert Einstein. This made for a horrifying combination that almost resulted in the fiery deaths of thousands of innocent people.”

According to Atlanta-based Remarsh, McMullen designed a primitive, steel-encased fission bomb using dynamite, uranium ore and other elements -- 80 years before American scientists developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

“I showed McMullen’s writings to physicists familiar with nuclear fission and they were stunned,” Remarsh states. “His bomb was crude, with maybe a tenth of the destructive power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, but it would have worked.

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[Rodney King]

Hmm... Let's see if the 20 times daily civil war feud gets started over this one.

[Rodney King]

Have at it!

[Jay W]

This story sounds like a script from the old "Wild Wild West" TV series. I'm surprised it didn't mention the evil Dr. Loveless.

[nravoter]

The harnessing of the atom was also scheduled for use in Eli Whitney's New and Improved Cotton A-Gin.

[Conservababe]

Scuse me, are you talking of the War of Northern Aggression?

[swarthyguy]

Harry TurtleDove should eat this up.

[11B3]

So he developed this in 1864 - truly amazing. Now compare that with any Arab nation this many years later, and they still can't manage to do this on their own.

[Conservababe]

My great uncle, John Rust, invented the cotton picker. It had the same results on the south as the atomic bomb.

[bloggerjohn]

I usually don't place much credence in WWW, but there was that article about Clinton being sired by Satan...

[Rodney King]

Right, sorry.

[11B3]

LOL

[Kerberos]

Talk about a guy who was ahead of his time.

[Vidalia]

No, no, no, that's not it at all. It was Robert Fulton. He was tired of all that steam ruining his cigars.

[Conservababe]

And why, praytell, are you laughing?

[Senator Pardek]

And they used slave labor to get it done, just like the Free Trade Globalists do overseas today!

[DallasMike]

This story sounds like a script from the old "Wild Wild West" TV series.

I am almost positive that it was. I loved that show when I was a kid.

[rwfromkansas]

Dang....too bad he died before getting to try it out. A couple of those babies and the war would have been over.

[kcamtx]

He was gonna call it "Little Bubba."

[spectre]

I hear the author's next article is about the Stealth Bomber recently uncovered in an old barn near Vicksburg.

[LibWhacker]

I'm still waiting for a followup on that little Titanic baby found floating in a life preserver in 1993, dressed in 1912 baby clothes, and crying for her mother.