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Old 29th Dec 2013, 22:24
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Spot on ColinB

Farm Hall indeed settles the matter about why the remaining aryan physicists' pooch was walking tentatively around Germany in mid-1945.

Some tunnels under Mauthausen with Uranium in them (anyone think to check the geology?) does not a combination of the Oak Ridge, Argonne, Los Alamos and Hanford sites make.

The USSR was already deeply engaged in nuclear weapons development, despite wartime stringency; but then, just the knowledge that a simple reactor-based plutonium programme was underway makes the road to executing one rather easier in the face of a demanding and despotic leader.
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