Re: The "From" bug strikes again :-)

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

I believe that the bombing of the plant at Peenemunde effectively ended the
German nuclear weapons program.  There was, however, no particular question
that the Germans had Czechoslovakian uranium.  They went for the Baku oil
fields, which might have given them the energy resources to enrich uranium
sufficiently.

To add a lighter note to this thread, I commend to RADSAFERs two Tom Lehrer
songs: "Werner von Braun" and "In the Land of the Old AEC."

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 11:59 AM
Subject: The "From" bug strikes again :-)


>See, e.g.,:
>>From a bio note on Heisenberg:
>http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Heisenberg.html
>
>"During the Second World War he headed the unsuccessful German nuclear
weapons
>project. He worked with Otto Hahn, one of the discoverers of nuclear
fission,
>on the development of a nuclear reactor but failed to develop an effective
>program for nuclear weapons. Whether this was because of lack of resources
or
>a lack of a desire to put nuclear weapons in the hands of the Nazis, it is
>unclear.
>
>After the war he was interned in Britain with other leading German
scientists.
>However he returned to Germany in 1946 when he was appointed director of
the
>Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics at Göttingen. In 1958 the
>Institute moved to Munich and Heisenberg continued as its director.
>
>But, see also:
>http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/journal/issues/1997/feb/abs204.html
>
>Another ref:
>http://www.csr.utexas.edu/personal/leuliette/HTML/book_1099.html
>
>Regards, Jim
>muckerheide@mediaone.net
>========================
>
>Franz Schoenhofer wrote:
>>
>> At 08:14 08.08.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>> >I believe way beyond the shadow of a doubt that President Truman made
the
>> correct decision.  My Father and wife's father were posed to invade the,
>> then Japanese aggressor (who knows I or my wife might have never been). I
>> sincerely believe that the people of Japan, who now represent a new
>> generation, have new ideals and this is good. The one question for
everyone
>> I have is that do they remember that Germany and Japan during WW II were
>> developing their own capability for nuclear destruction.
>>
>> There was not the slightest chance for Germany or Japan to develop a
>> nuclear bomb. Germany had an assembly of uranium, where a small
>> multiplication of neutrons could be achieved, no self-sustaining chain
>> reaction was possible. There was no technology to enrich uranium or to
>> breed plutonium, therefore no access to the necessary fissile material.
>> There was during the last years of WWII no money and no infrastructure
>> available for such a development. Japan was far behind Germany regarding
>> nuclear research, I am not sure that they even knew about the theoretical
>> possibility.
>>
>> I know, that it has been often been used nearly as an excuse, that the
USA
>> was suspicious that a nuclear bomb was under construction in Germany -
but
>> was and is a myth and counter intelligence should have known better.
>>
>> Franz
>>
>> Franz Schoenhofer
>> Habicherg. 31/7
>> A-1160 Vienna
>> Austria
>> Tel.: +43-1-495 53 08
>> Fax.: same number
>> mobile phone: +43-664-338 0 333
>> e-mail: schoenho@via.at
>>
>> Please note my new telephone number at my office!
>>
>> Office:
>> Ministerialrat Dr. Franz Schoenhofer
>> Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
Management
>> Radiation Protection Department (BMLFUW I/8 U)
>> Radetzkystr. 2
>> A-1031 Vienna
>> AUSTRIA
>>
>> phone: -43-1-71100-4458
>> fax: -43-1-7122331
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