Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:23 PM 8/18/01 +0200, Pascal wrote: >Also, there are indications that the Germans were experimenting with nuclear >payloads. It is only due to the late stage of the war that realization of >all these plans could be prohibited ! But they had the knowledge, and that >was put to fruition by the Allies after the war ended... The German nuclear-bomb project was ended in 1943 and the uranium collected for the project was diverted to the production of depleted-uranium anti-tank rounds, shades of DESERT STORM! See Speer, INSIDE THE THIRD REICH or OPERATION EPSILON: THE FARM HALL TRANSCRIPTS (Post-War commentary by Heisenberg & al, transcripts of private conversations while in British custody) for discussion. The A9/A10 project was never more than a design exercize. See Willy Ley, ROCKETS, MISSILES, AND SPACE TRAVEL, for discussion. Even more intriquing was the Antipodes Rocket, a sub-orbital skip-bomber designed to bomb Australia. But none of these projects ever got off the drafting table. Simply put, the Germans lacked the resources to produce anything on the scale of this weaponry. Both the Manhatten Project and the B-29/B-32 cost more than Germany spent for its entire war effort from 1941 until 1945. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!