• We have updated the guidelines regarding posting political content: please see the stickied thread on Website Issues.

Nazi Nukes: Did Hitler Develop An Atomic Bomb?

The question seems rather to be, why would he stash them?
 
The question seems rather to be, why would he stash them?
Yes, good question.
Perhaps someone suggested to Hitler that Europe could be taken peacefully. It would just take time...
 
How much?
I don't know, but I looked at a comparison online of all the planes, tanks, warships, submarines and other military vehicles - and Germany seems to be doing better than Britain in one or two areas.
Britain spends more on the military than any other European power.
This list shows that Germany has more tanks than the UK:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_level_of_military_equipment
However, there may be many weapons under wraps and unaccounted for...
 
Is there somewhere an old style map, with a swastika to show where the nuclear treasure is buried?
 
A nuclear swastika:
McLkBGaqi.jpeg
 
More on the missing Nazi Uranium.

The Nazis did some pretty messed up stuff.

In addition to their genocidal habits — which, understandably, tends to be the focus of their fucked-up-ed-ness — the Nazis also got involved with some mad science (some of which also contributed to the aforementioned genocide). Like a lot of powerful nations at the time, this included some nuclear aspirations. While Allied Forces recovered some 600 or so two-by-two-inch uranium cubes from the lab of Werner Heisenberg — yes, that Heisenberg — in the Swabian Alps town of Haigerloch, several hundred more of these Nazi uranium cubes ultimately went missing from Kurt Diebner's lab at the Gottow experimental site.

That's right: hundreds of Nazi-purified uranium cubes just up and disappeared.

One of them made its way to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNLL) in the United States — though it's not exactly clear how it got there. The University of Maryland also has access to a few of them. But 80 years later, the rest of them are still AWOL.

The Heisenberg uranium cubes and the Diebner uranium cubes were obtained through different methods, and scientists know enough about radiation that they can identify the source of a particular cube by tracing the evidence of these methods. And now, according to SkyNews, this may help them figure out where the hell those cubes have been this whole time:

https://boingboing.net/2021/08/29/more-than-one-ton-of-nazi-uranium-is-still-missing.html
 
More on the missing Nazi Uranium.

The Nazis did some pretty messed up stuff.

In addition to their genocidal habits — which, understandably, tends to be the focus of their fucked-up-ed-ness — the Nazis also got involved with some mad science (some of which also contributed to the aforementioned genocide). Like a lot of powerful nations at the time, this included some nuclear aspirations. While Allied Forces recovered some 600 or so two-by-two-inch uranium cubes from the lab of Werner Heisenberg — yes, that Heisenberg — in the Swabian Alps town of Haigerloch, several hundred more of these Nazi uranium cubes ultimately went missing from Kurt Diebner's lab at the Gottow experimental site.

That's right: hundreds of Nazi-purified uranium cubes just up and disappeared.

One of them made its way to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNLL) in the United States — though it's not exactly clear how it got there. The University of Maryland also has access to a few of them. But 80 years later, the rest of them are still AWOL.

The Heisenberg uranium cubes and the Diebner uranium cubes were obtained through different methods, and scientists know enough about radiation that they can identify the source of a particular cube by tracing the evidence of these methods. And now, according to SkyNews, this may help them figure out where the hell those cubes have been this whole time:

https://boingboing.net/2021/08/29/more-than-one-ton-of-nazi-uranium-is-still-missing.html
The Nazis were very close to building a bomb.
 
I believe the Nazis saw much more potential in nuclear power plants than bombs. Remember that for much of WW2 they were desperately short of petrol. Also they were interested in the potential of nuclear submarines.
 
This new online article:
Have You Seen Any Nazi Uranium? These Researchers Want To Know
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/31/7554...t-to-know?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=science
... provides a detailed explanation for German uranium stock hidden as the war ended, as well as the state of German nuclear weapons R&D as of 1945.
This Business Insider / ScienceAlert article provides more details on what's been learned about the fate of circa 1,000 uranium cubes manfactured for Nazi Germany's two failed nuclear reactor projects.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scient...nazi-uranium-that-have-gone-missing-in-the-us
https://www.businessinsider.com/search-for-nazi-uranium-cubes-after-war-2021-8

Here are some notable excerpts ...
"Marie Curie's granddaughter has one. She uses it as a doorstop," Miriam Hiebert, a historian and materials scientist, told Insider.
Hiebert and Timothy Koeth, a professor of material science and engineering at the University of Maryland, are writing a book about the cubes. After years of research, they told Insider they think they know what happened.
In its natural form, uranium is not very radioactive. So the cubes aren't very dangerous.
The Nazis developed two prototype reactors, the larger of which had 664 uranium cubes strung from a plate and suspended over a pit of heavy water. The smaller reactor used about 400 cubes.
In April 1945, Allied forces found and captured about 1.6 tons of uranium cubes in southern Germany. Heisenberg, his team, and the larger of Germany's two reactors – neither of which ever worked – had previously been hiding there. Nearly all the cubes were sent back to the US. The Alsos mission never found the smaller reactor.
Koeth's other cube came from a former faculty member at the University of Maryland, who in turn had gotten it from another faculty member, Dick Duffey. During the war, Duffey, a chemical engineer, had worked at a plant in Beverly, Massachusetts, that processed scrap uranium, Koeth said.

Based on these findings and others, Hiebert and Koeth think most of the Nazi cubes that made it to the US were repurposed and used in America's own nuclear program. But some, they think, got "picked off the pile" and kept as souvenirs. ...
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory owns another one of the Nazi cubes but doesn't have records documenting its history. ...

Today, though, the cube has a different function: "The primary purpose it is used for is training," Schwantes told Insider.

The national laboratory teaches security personnel how to recognize nuclear and radioactive material on sight. So the cube offers a good training example.
 
A Vice article on the cube at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory:

This May Be a 'Heisenberg Cube' From the Nazis' Failed Nuke Program, Scientists Say​

The Nazis tried to develop nuclear weapons during WWII. This uranium cube at a Washington laboratory may have been part of this secret program.
Scientists are close to confirming the provenance of a uranium cube that is widely suspected to have originated in Nazi Germany as part of the regime’s nuclear weapons program.
The cutting-edge research sheds new light into the Nazis’ secret efforts to develop atomic bombs, an outcome that could have upended World War II if it had been successful. In addition to these historical insights, the rare cube is also used as a training device to help prevent illicit trafficking of modern nuclear
materials.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93y...-the-nazis-failed-nuke-program-scientists-say
 
Back
Top