What If the Nazis Had Gotten the Atomic Bomb?

by Jack Le Moine

From the latest happenings in things historical. This article What if Hitler had got the Atomic Bomb? was published 47 days ago in RealClear Science. The article’s author is Ross Pomeroy.

At the end of the war the captured German scientists who worked on the Nazi nuclear program were in a house in Britain. The British thoroughly bugged the house and recorded the Germans’ discussions. This article reports on the highlights of those discussions.

“I believe the reason we didn’t do it was because all the physicists didn’t want to do it, on principle. If we had all wanted Germany to win the war we would have succeeded,” Weizsäcker argued.