Not really as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima, but Germany tested TWO nuclear devices well before the US tested theirs. The German tests came in 1944 and early 1945 (compare to US first test in July 1945). The German nuclear initiative was headed by this man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Diebner
There are number of recently publicized documents and eyewitness accounts of the actual nuclear tests. Even Mussolini gave a speech praising the new German weapon. And Germany was not far away from putting nuclear warheads on the V2. Do some more research before you dismiss German technology as futile. Western historians wouldn't be happy to admit that the Nazis were the first to the bomb. Strictly speaking though, the German bomb was little more than a dirty bomb. But they came within a hair of developing a full-scale nuclear weapon and nuclear missiles. Some more information is available here http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/22270
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Not really as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima, but Germany tested TWO nuclear devices well before the US tested theirs. The German tests came in 1944 and early 1945 (compare to US first test in July 1945). The German nuclear initiative was headed by this man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Diebner
There are number of recently publicized documents and eyewitness accounts of the actual nuclear tests. Even Mussolini gave a speech praising the new German weapon. And Germany was not far away from putting nuclear warheads on the V2. Do some more research before you dismiss German technology as futile. Western historians wouldn't be happy to admit that the Nazis were the first to the bomb. Strictly speaking though, the German bomb was little more than a dirty bomb. But they came within a hair of developing a full-scale nuclear weapon and nuclear missiles. Some more information is available here http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/22270