How close was Germany to build the Nuclear Weapon in WW2? 

They were probly 8 years off. Atomic and nuclear is NOT THE SAME. Fission vs fusion......smh

This video is not fully accurate - because the american approach was just one way of getting the atom bomb. But to be more specific - during ww2 manhattan scientists calculated the natural crittical mass of PU.239 plutonium required for an explosion and then figured out how to acquire that quantity. By contrast the Germans concentrated how to lower the threshhold for criticality by inducing fusion by combining lighter elements under heat and pressure with conventional explosives. Using Fusion boosted Fission technique first developed by Nazi Germany in 1942, it is possible to detonate quite small amounts of fissile material, even Uranium 238 or unenriched natural Uranium with simple high explosives. Heisenberg was one of the less important characters in German nuclear research and mostly an administrator for the Uranverin.

Guys, he only cares about his blinkist ad revenue.

When the allies found the Nazis research station in a secret cave, they found out that they were YEARS behind the US. This is because they were sabotaged over the years. I read a great book about it called "bomb"

They did that.. and moved on into asteroid mining ,human trafficking , don't look at Seimens, ( paid millions in damages for War crimes in WW2, they recovered by doing the same in Secret Space Programs.) Trump's White Hat Military didn't Start the "Space Force" They just took complete control of it ,then announced it was being formed ,to not shock the PEOPLE told lies about space since 1930's

" Trumps white hat military" lol saving americans by day securing oil in Syria by night.

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Oh god I remember that movie 😂😂

And did Hitler escape in the center of the Earth where dinosaurs also still dwell

Hats of to you, friend

The cat sat on the mat

@@ralphjosephacobo8014 How clever...

Thank you!

Not all hero’s wear capes

They had Romania on their side but weren't Nazis/Fascists so only a Vampire Army. Still worked pretty smooth. The Vampires stabbed, or shall say _bit_ Germany in the neck from the back.

Is this a jojo reference

@@godspeedfeitan7601 more of a Hellsing reference

I think a vampire and a butler took care of that project .

@@ahmedosama7232 yeah lol

Yes

this just shows how much of a deluded idiot he was and that racism has no place in science

Has little to do with a certain race, there was in Britain in 1940 a lot of existence theoretical know how, how to go forward. There were plenty not Jew involved.

@Alex Munro I’ve heard this before, Not surprised though Hitler was consumered with hatred

Isnt it used in nuclear energy rather than nuclear weapon? Edit:although its not complete

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@@Knowledgia ah yes another BB reference

@@BrownDusky I mean it is one of the best shows ever,it has a lot of popularity

I get that reference

*science

Germany is part of the west..

sort of irony: Hitler sat on a shitton of uranium, but he never knew it. east germany became 4th largest producer of uranium during cold war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismut_(mining_company)

@@rivenoak what do you mean didnt know it? Where do you think the 600 tons of uranium came from that the allies confiscated? Why do you think germany already had efficient uranium enrichment facilities a decade before any allied nations?

@@tomenzerink2844 lmfao, ya western EUROPE

Hitler thought that the A-bomb is a "jewish weapon". So he did not set up a large program for the bomb.

Wasnt that many years before?...

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His pronunciation of “Verein” ( in Uranverein) leaves a lot to be desired, too.

Phil Martins - should we ask Dr. Edward Richtofen?

They were close to the atomic bomb that's how USA built it using German Scientists and Engineers.

hydrolito British scientists*

@@hydrolito The manhattan project got a big push from the british tube alloys project and jewish scientists who revoked their german nationality before/ in the early years of ww2. Those scientists were developing the bomb against germany during ww2. So no, Germany really was far behind the allies when it came to nuke development.

@@buihelgason but they learn from germany right?

@@buihelgason yes but just imagine we all been lied they say america build it first but tge real is germany the aryan ras are very smart indeed

Was it? As far as I'm awere they got a lot of there information and resorces for it from Germany yet japan were to far behind even Germany so started to make dirty bombs.

ever heard of "classified File APO 696" ?

perhaps the usa build the japan-bombs with german material from u-boat...and what is with the ss-dirty bomb tested in poland??

Why do you hate Muslims?

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Italy was WAY TOO POOR to build a nuclear weapon you need a lot more than knowhow to field an A bomb. They couldn't even build a decent tank nor could they build more than a handful of any model because of their lack of industry. Italy's most numerous tank was the M13/40 they built 2000 the US built over 49,000 Sherman tanks. The Manhatten project cost 2 billion dollars in 1940's money the only country that had that kind of money to burn on something that may not have worked was the USA.This is why Hitler wasn't trying to build an A bomb either it is too resource intensive and may not have worked. The British were way ahead of the US in their A bomb program but they knew they couldn't afford to build the massive nuclear infrastructure needed or protect it from being bombed every other day so they sent their scientists to America where scientist from around the world went. It still took years for the largest unbombed industrial base on the planet to complete it. So no, Italy never had a chance to even enter the race much less win.

@@JoeBLOWFHB The odd thing is, by 1940 or 1941 the problem of the bomb wasn't the basic physics, which was increasingly better understood, but the sheer industrial effort it would take with 1940s technology to produce weapons-grade material in sufficient quantities to be useful. The Manhattan Project had research aspects, to be sure, but it was primarily an engineering and industrial operation. The US was perfectly positioned for such an effort. The Germans might have been able to do it if they had given the project the attention it needed. Instead, they focused on conventional weapons in the expectation they could win the war before nuclear weapons could be available. Almost no other country at that time had the industrial base needed, especially under wartime conditions.

@@douglasdaniel4504 "The problem of the bomb wasn't basic physics" Really? Then why did the UK ask the US how the bomb was built after WWII? Why did it take the British 7 years to make their first A bomb after the US refused to share their finished designs? It is because even with their direct exposure to the Manhatten project they didn't understand how everything exactly worked. They didn't even know to build a weapons grade Pu reactor much less operate it for efficient production or how to extract the fissile material. This left the UK favoring the much less efficient and more dangerous to use uranium based weapons because they had some experience enriching uranium. But the final decision came down to the cost not just level of industry required. Pu was cheaper to make and made a much safer weapon to transport and store so they tried both. Oh and the US had good reason to distrust the UK over nuclear secrets due to espionage arrest of Alan Nunn May in 1946 and Klaus Fuchs in 1950 along with Donald Maclean's defection in 1951. We weren't sure the uranium gun device bomb was even going to work until about 3/4 of the way through the project when we had enough HEU to determine criticality effects and neutron crosssections. We didn't know that Pu wouldn't work in the original Thinman gun device until we had the Pu in hand and discovered reactor bred Pu had too high of a spontanous fission rate to be used in a gun device. That is why they went with the far harder implosion design for Fatman. It didn't only take sheer industrial effort it took 2 billion dollars in the middle of a two front world war. That money could have just as easily been wasted if the weapon didn't work. Hitler liked the idea of "wonder weapons" but he didn't like how long they took to perfect. This is why the Germans never fielded them in significant numbers and why they were introduced so late in the war. Albert Speer refused to support the project unless he could be assured of positive results, which he couldn't because the Germans weren't sure on how to produce a working bomb... nobody was. The Germans didn't even know Pu or implosion was an option until after the war. It didn't help that the allies were pounding these production facilities and their supporting industries into the ground. Germany's only chance at producing a nuclear weapon would have been an alliance with Russia (or the US). Only then would they have the resources and more importantly the bomber free environment to develop the massive infrastructure to start making a bomb. Then they'd only need to develop a heavy bomber to deliver it continental distances. Hitler knew he couldn't trust Stalin especially after Hitler stabbed him in the back and America wasn't an option so he didn't waste his time.

@@JoeBLOWFHB Well, frankly, I think you're making my point. Most or all the issues you pointed out were engineering challenges, unrelated to the basic physics that the atoms of certain radioactive isotopes can be split, inducing a chain reaction of fission events that releases energy at each step. Practically everyone, including the Germans and the Japanese, understood that much by 1941. Creating a practical device around that little science factoid...well, that was the hard, and expensive, part.

Fermi also designed and built the first nuclear reactor.

They didnt even try tho.....

It was some norwegian commandos, NOT the british. I legit have a whole book about the Vemork raid

The had the plan already

CryIngSnow with what scientists ? Half the best scientists fled from Germany because they where Jewish the rest stayed and where either killed or where just assimilated into the army it’s how the us got so far ahead in everything for a while their then when the war was over we took the rest of the scientist like van Braun and others

@mexicansnohablo I partially agree wth you, lots of good scientists fled, or whatever, however there were some others like Diebner, who were pretty good scientists, especially in the nuclear field.

NUCLEAR ATTACK

@@NorthernE *DECEMBER* IN BLACK *HEINKEL ONE SEVENTEEN* TURNING BACK PREPARE FOR NUCLEAR ATTACK WARNED BUT DID NOT HEED PREPARE FOR NUCLEAR ATTACK EXTERMINATION STRIKE BACK CHOSE NOT TO BELIEVE ANOTHER NUCLEAR ATTACK

@@shanedoesyoutube8001 From the southeast came the second attack, threat of tomorrow unveiled 11:02 on the 9th of August Over the valley, like ball lightning

@@NorthernE 1) that would be north or south *west* in Germany's case 2) where was the Russian Nagasaki the luftwaffe coulda targeted???

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PetHub ok nerd relax we all understanding what he saying

Cool!

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I've seen it told elsewhere that Albert Speer was told what it would take to have a real nuclear program. He rapidly concluded that he could either fight the war already in progress, or have a nuclear program, but that in no way did Germany have the resources to do both.

Nope, they thought quantum physics is jewish BS

Based

The Video is 11 Minutes and Your Comment Added 5 Minutes ago lol

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unclejackz is that a reference to something like wolfenstein or man in the high castle?

@@kuttex123x4 Since you put it that way, yea reference to Wolfenstein. I haven't watched Man in the High Castle yet so I don't know about it

Flag man in high castle is good but story line is a bit tricky to follow if you like to drink 🍸 while watching it

Lol quite the opposite

Except when he says Cacausus, which doesn't exist.

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For the physicists, a primary incentive to have a German Nuclear Program likely was staying far, far away from the meat grinder that was the Russian Front.

David S Cameron we did tho lol

@@zacharyyekta1918 My point is we didn't, we didn't marginally win a race because as it says in this rare honest upload they weren't even close, they did not even have nuclear weapons programme but we get fed nonsense by Historians and opinion forming media and tragically people swallow it without question.

Nonsense.

I thought Nazis and Werahboos were a myth

@@bs2202 I don't know how to answer to that.

@@thecakeisalie6392 Asking for the Nazis to win just to make Eastern European Cities look cooler is generally considered being a Nazi supporter

@@bs2202 I said the cities only to give a little example, and I would have preferred nazis before the soviets to win even though I do not share their ideology at all, but in my opinion the damage in the long run would have been a lot less. Hitler wasn't inmortal and I believe concentration camps (which are the main reason most people hate nazis) would have died with him like Gulags did with Stalin.

The video is far from the truth! I will make a video about that subject, but it takes much time to put all needed informations and sources together. But be curious...

Your comment is a true gem!

300kg of enriched Uranium? I hope you are joking

Considering 3 of the 4 known sources of Uranium were in Allied hands in 1940-1945 (or only one in possession of the Nazis throughout the war), Sub U234 is a footnote. As Germany was not enriching any uranium ore, a Uranium bomb was years away. There was also no pursuit of plutonium as a possible alternative. But the true elephant in the room for your proposition is power: the electrical energy required to drive any uranium enrichment system.Oak Ridge is near the Norris dam, and Hanford the Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams. Oranienburg was a railway hub, armaments centre and had at least one aircraft factory - all great targets and all easier to hit than a small institute in one house and small plant producing uranium and thorium metal. As for 300kg of enriched uranium, total bollocks.

Stephen Litten research the Auer Werke it was not a small Facility and was next to the railway yard. German authorities estimate that there still over 400 unexploded bombs in the ground in and around the factory site from US bombing raids. This factory site had nothing to do with the little place Heisenberg was working in. You are correct in that Germany did not have knowledge of plutonium. Auer Werke refers to the factory site the company is called Auer Gesellschaft. All in all the allies found about 100 tons of pure uranium oxide this is not enriched and the Soviets got 20 to 40 % of it depending on your sources.

@@holgerfritz4819 If the Auer werke site was next to the railyards, then any targetting of the railyards would almost always catch Auer Werke.: Allied mass bombing had a considerable spread. Not knowing the exact geography of the site or the flight paths of the various bombing missions, but I suspect Auer Werke was within 2 standard deviations of the nominal target pin point, if as you say the factory is directly alongside the marshalling yards. It may also have been inconveniently close to the aircraft factory and the armaments facility. Judging by your name, you may be German and so have better access to historical/archival information relating to the industrial history of mid-20th C Oranienburg.

Ich heiße...Heisenberrrrrrg

He didn't do nothing. He just didn't exactly work his butt off.

Well...you can attempt to rewrite history to make it conform to your personal beliefs, however, it doesn't make your version true. Read the Farm Hall transcripts and then you may change your mind since Heisenberg had little knowledge of how fast neutron reactions would work with enriched U235.

They say it might be available in 18 months or less

12 to 18 months

@@coloneltheheroic243 😣

They might already have Corona vaccine, but for different strain of the disease, how much they would have to modify it for this one I do not know.

I thought the same thing. A little Monday morning Quarter Backing here but had they worked together “v1/v2 and Atomic weapons, stayed true to the agreement with neville Chamberland and hold off on invasion of Russia they could have done some serious damage!

They did

AK Brahma That’s correct.