Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi nuke'

[steve2470]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4598955.stm


Historians working in Germany and the US claim to have found a 60-year-old diagram showing a Nazi nuclear bomb.

It is the only known drawing of a "nuke" made by Nazi experts and appears in a report held by a private archive.

The researchers who brought it to light say the drawing is a rough schematic and does not imply the Nazis built, or were close to building, an atomic bomb.

But a detail in the report hints some Nazi scientists may have been closer to that goal than was previously believed.

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shh, don't tell Dubya.

[BeyondThePale]

1. Finally the smoking gun that Saddam had WMDs!

The plans were secretly smuggled in an ancient ark after being prophesied in the Da Vinci code and written on the back of the declaration of independence.

[VOX]

2. Hah! Good one, BTP!

And a semi-belated welcome to DU!

Cheers -- :toast:

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Interesting

I thought they were planning to bomb New York but it never happened? Weren't they also testing in out space too?

[Richard Steele]

4. I don't know just what the agenda is here, but I do know it's BS.

One of the gentlemen involved in this "discovery" recently published a book claiming that the Nazis had sucessfully tested a nuke:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4348497.stm
"The eyewitnesses he puts forward are either unreliable or they are not reporting first-hand information; allegedly key documents can be interpreted in various ways," said the influential news weekly Der Spiegel."


After reading a few quotes from Mr. Karlsh in another article, I think this physicist really sums it up:
"Karlsch displays a catastrophic lack of understanding of physics," wrote physicist Michael Schaaf, author of a previous book about Nazi atomic experiments, in the Berliner Zeitung newspaper.

IMHO, Karlsh's claims are comlete tinfoil-hat crap. :tinfoilhat: