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Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi Nuke'

ninjee writes "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. The report containing the diagram is undated, but the researchers claim the evidence points to it being produced immediately after the end of the war in Europe. It deals with the work of German nuclear scientists during the war and lacks a title page, so there is no evidence of who composed it. One historian behind the discovery, Rainer Karlsch, caused a storm of controversy earlier this year when he claimed to have uncovered evidence the Nazis successfully tested a primitive nuclear device in the last days of WWII. A number of historians rejected the claim. The drawing is published in an article written for Physics World magazine by Karlsch and Mark Walker, professor of history at Union College in Schenectady, US."

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  1. Da Bomb... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In A.D. 1944
    War was ending.

    Captain: What happen ?
    Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
    Operator: We get signal.
    Captain: What !
    Operator: Main screen turn on.
    Captain: It's you !!
    Hitler: Guten Morgen, Frauen und Herren !!
    Hitler: Alle Seine baze are belongen to uns.
    Hitler: Sie sind on der way zum deztrkzion.
    Captain: What you say !!
    Hitler: Sie have keine chance zum surviven mache seine zeit.
    Hitler: Har Har Har Har ....
    Operator: Captain !!*
    Captain: Take off every 'Jew'!!
    Captain: You know what you doing.
    Captain: Move 'Jew'.
    Captain: For great justice.

  2. Re:Germans didn't have a Nuke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't think the Eastern Europeans share your sentiments. A German defeat of the Soviet Union would have likely resulted in a far more prosperous history for those fateful people.

    As for "Jewish Physics", this is more accurately described as "Jewish Propaganda". While Einstein certainly provided some theoretical concepts to the understanding of relativity, his unwillingness to accept the randomness of the universe as manifested in the uncertainty principle is often rightly attributed to his religious biases.

    In many ways, the uncertainty principle is completely contradictory to the understanding of the universe described in talmudic teachings. That this is a fundamental aspect of that universe was and still is difficult for many Jews to accept.

    Even more importantly, the National Socialist ideology is based upon this randomness of life. There are no steadfast laws; you must adapt as story of life unfolds. Jews believe in endless laws and arguing to discover them. National Socialists believe in finding guidelines to help in understanding, and following your instincts when time is of the essence.

    Even today, the constant search for that all encompassing rule of everything is hindering research in physics. Perhaps if these scientists were raised with open minded love of nature that is the essence of National Socialism, things could be different

    You're understanding of this matter is obviously very shallow. But then again, sixty years of post-war propaganda has been rather effective.

    Sieg Heil!

  3. Re:Forget it. by whackedoutgeek2004 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually the germans had plenty of plutonium, At the end of WWII in Europe there was a German Uboat that surrendered to the US with plenty of plutonium on board and 2 Japanese Naval Officers that was headed for Japan. What's really interesting though is that the Japanese were already mining Uranium in what is now N Korea. They actually had blueprints for a bomb not some scribbles on a napkin. There is also a therory that they may have even tested a device between when we nuked Hiroshima & Hiroshima. The thery has never been proven but has never been disproven either.