Originally Posted by
fitliker
Cosmic Irony the guy who designed that particular weapon , Sakharov was awarded a Nobel peace prize
The model of aircraft that carried the payload is still in service and a similar aircraft was playing War games off Alaska this week. Not the scarey version the one with the hypersonic cruise missiles and Mig 31 escorts , just the observation model.
The Nazis were working on a clean Nuclear device , start worrying if the designs and plans for the clean weapon they tested in Poland are ever found . Although such a device would make mining more profitable
Really? The Nazi nuclear programme was at least a decade behind TUBE ALLOYS/MANHATTEN and was a million kilometers away from even being remotely weaponised. Some interesting work was done at Heidleburg (where they built a primative 'pile') and at the Chemical Research institute in Garmisch (where, at the end of the war, they hid radioactive material in the river - which US Authorities recoved in 1946/47).