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Chiteng -> (2/26/2002 10:58:00 AM)
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Unknown Enemy,
The german scientists made a simple but crucial
technological mistake in their bomb developement.
There is a book that goes into great detail,
all I recall is that the U-235 storage could have been done a different way and would have much
better results. By not focusing on a U-235 device
they doomed themselves to yet another 3-4 years
AT A MINIMUM. Maybe even longer. They had the right idea, just bad implementation. So the upshot is that they could have built a dirty
bomb that slowly poisioned everyone in the target
area, but they could not have gotten a 'big bang'
Coupled with this was a terrible lab accident
where their entire supply of refined Uranium
was exposed to the air and exploded in flame.
Burning Uranium causes a fine mist of alpha
emiting particles that is VERY deadly.
The entire site was sealed off. I dont know
what happened to it post war.
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