Why did Germany not make an A-Bomb? 

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the artists are so talented especially with the weapons they look so good

He could honestly have a movie of his own like Oppenheimer, it’s super fascinating!

2:30 “Sag meinen Namen” … “Heisenberg”

Corrections: The letter to FDR was actually written by Leo Szilard; Germany never made nukes because Werner Heisenberg calculated the critical mass wrong, and was convinced that nukes are impossible to make.

Fun fact: oppenheimer and heisenberg were childhood friends

Didn’t the Nazis also claim that quantum mechanics were “Jewish science”?

This is the moment the Heisenberg became walter white

I love how the setting of that opening scene is the stage in Kino der Toten from COD Black Ops Zombies. I would say it brings back good memories, but that wouldn't be very accurate considering I still play it😉.

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Another factor may have been Telemark, and the raid in the heavy water facility there. Heavy water (D2O) is a poorer neutron regulator, than what other (modern) reactors use graphite, but the British helped the Norwegian resistance bomb the facility, this caused the Germans to think they were getting close with using Heavy water, and thus out more finances into rather than pursuing Graphite.

I love the valve refrences( the Gordon Freeman with the crowbar; and the TF2 bomb from the cart)

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2:11 Oh hello there, Gordon Freeman, the team is already waiting for you in the test chamber

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1:36 An inaccuracy is the fact that the number of emitted neutrons is actually 2 or 3.

0:01 mans looking like that German scientist from Zombies even the map looks like Kino

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Missed this one because it was uploaded like an hour after I went to sleep. Great video

3:01 it was Slovak State not are republic, minor error :)

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Historically inaccurate. Leo Szilard is the one that realized the immediate danger. He was an acquaintance of Einstein, who was already famous at the time, having no way to contact the President Szilard used Einstein’s fame to have the letter of warning deliver to FDR. The letter was written by both Szilard (who informed Einstein about the danger) and Einstein who provided his signature The letter shows how little was known at the time as they expected the main danger being that tonnes of uranium maybe used to destroy a harbor (by being carried on a ship).

Love learning about history in a beautiful artistic manner!

There's something wrong with this video. At 3:24 you show a cartoon of France where it's head is the French tricolor flag. But when you show the British person it's head is the flag of England. It should be the UK Union Jack.

3:12 man i just got chills! The transition from the animationto real at the time foto and than to my memory! Ive been to that camp on an excursion to learn more about it and i lm preaty sure i saw that exact doorway!

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5:25 The real uncertainty principle

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If splitting a Uranium atom produced only one neutron there would have been no bomb. We call it chain reaction, but it’s actually branching chain reaction, so the number of split nuclei increases exponentially. This allowed nuclear weapons.

The important part of fissionable materials is not that they create just one neutron when split by a neutron, which is what the illustration in the video unwittingly implies, it is that they can create multiple neutrons! This way 1 neutron splitting 1 atom releases for example 3 neutrons, which split 3 atoms releasing 9 neutrons, splitting 9 atoms releasing 27, and so on. The reaction is not just self-prepetuating at a constant rate, it is growing exponentially. Usually many neutrons fly away without reacting, however, so the speed of this growth can be manipulated by the density of the material and the neutrons. The reactions go on, until the neutrons can no longer find enough new fissionable atoms to react with. In nuclear reactors, they do this using absorbing material, for example water. The reaction is allowed to grow slowly until it reaches the desired power output, after which enough absorbing material is added so that 1 reaction on average leads to about 1 new reaction, causing the reactor to keep going, but without dying, or growing too fast, which could cause a meltdown. (Nuclear explosions require special explosive methods to momentarily massive increase the reaction speed, which is why nuclear reactors cannot explode like nuclear bombs) Another possibility is that so much fissionable atoms undergo fission that the density of fissionable material grows too small, so the neutrons can't cause enough new neutrons to be released, and the reaction dies out. Basically, a reactor that runs out of fuel. In nuclear bombs, carefully timed explosions cause the atoms and neutrons to concentrate into an extremely high density sphere, where momentarily an absolutely insane amount of reactions can happen with far fewer neutrons lost before they cause a new reaction. The energy rises extremely high, and atoms gain so much energy that they get flung in every direction, so that the density goes down and the reaction stops. But before that, a lot of reactions have happened in a very short time, releasing an insane amount of energy, with said energy showing itself as a nuclear explosion.

Bro really went to kino der toten and thought we didnt notice

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The laugh of the one activating the Glocke really shows the megalomania they had

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2:43 The Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that the product of the standard deviations of particular pairs of measurements such as energy and time or position and momentum must be at least ħ/2. In other words, you cannot measure something perfectly unless you know nothing about another quantity.

Finally a history RU-vidr that uploads within a decade of the last video

Jesse, we need to create a weapon of mass destruction

This channel this small with this such good animation and skills is so cool

I knew i recognized your voice! Love all your videos arch

IS THAT KINO DER TOTEN

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So you could say that Heisenberg's principals were uncertain.

You know its a good video when it starts with a black ops reference

good video, but yeah you should do a double check on the maps, they are very well done and have great quality but you forgot to give crimea to the soviet union (this mistake can be seen from the 3:02 to 3:12) still i have to say again, you did a great job on the video, it's very good looking!

Always a good day when Historically posts 💪

A very VERY important thing to note which Historically skipped over; Nazi engineers did in fact dream big ideas for weapons and technology, but more often than not those technologies were either drenched in sudoscience, were unfeasible or were literally there to drain the Nazi government of money by large corporations (the only good time they did that if you ask me). And when some of these projects did actually get past prototyping and got into field testing they were very usually impractical and a stupid idea to begin with.

This video should have mentioned Operation Gunnerside- which sabotaged Germany's heavy water facilities in Norway which basically made it impossible for Germany to ever develop a nuclear bomb- since Germany used un-enriched uranium, meaning they needed heavy water to trigger the nuclear fission needed to create a nuclear bomb.

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2:12 gordon doesn't need to hear all this he's a highly trained professional.

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1:59 tf2 bomb right there

Come on man we all watched breaking bad

0:07 american measurment system

Didnt expect to see Doctor Richtofen…

Axis superweapons expensive pipedreams Allied superweapons where war winers like radar

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Q&A at 20 or 50k subs???

Im only now releasing how much the Nazis looked like supervillains. Sharply dressed idiots who had so many extreme plans of hatred that they lost them the war. No wonder why so many people came up with superheroes around this time.

You kinda glossed over the fact that none of the scientists in either country were certain that such a bomb was possible to be made, even after discovering fission. Early on, the amount of uranium needed to go critical was calculated to be too large to be practical for a weapon. It took the physicists years of research to determine that it was.

A cool villain or hero example is Fritz Haber, though there are already videos covering his deeds. He is still interesting.

Is anyone gonna acknowledge the fact the dude used the bomb on the Payload cart in TF2 for the art of the atomic bomb?

another reason for the faliure (THIS IS JUST A THEORY) is that he purpously misscalculated the amount of uranium needed to an ungodly amount, such that the reich would no be aible to support, true chad

Let's be honest, the only reason Heisenberg didn't want to start the project was because he didn't want to undermine the war effort by putting an inordinate amount of resources into a potential dud.

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tf2 bomb in thumbnail made me watch the video

Bro these are so high quality can believe you don’t have a million subscribers yet

3:04 a quick correction is that The Soviet Union joined 16 days AFTER the Germans invaded Poland. They didn't attack at the same time.

i just started watching and i respect that theres Richtofen and the teleporter and kino in this video

Awesome video ! Had no idea existed o.o

Man's whole life was an uncertainty principle

Animators are solid 🫡

Heisenberg and his team were most probably not even making the bomb but just doing research

the bomb in teh thumbnail looks suspiciously like a payload cart bomb from tf2 dangit he changed the thumbnail

Bro that's the tf2 payload cart

Fun fact: Their reactor would have worked if they hadn't split their uranium into two reactors.

wtf how do incredible creators like you just pop out of nowhere with content like this???

To paraphrase a quote: "What the fuck is this Schrodinger's Hero bullshit?!"

Fun fact: Oppenheimer used to work with Heisenberg before the war

There was also that commando raid on the only axis heavy-water enrichment facility in Norway.

They escaped because of the rising antisemitism, not fascism, that was in italy.

The only reason I clicked was because of the tf2 payload bomb on the thumbnail... nice going partner

Dammit! He’s a new channel! I can’t binge a bunch of content…… YET

wait was that the TF2 Payload in the thumbnail?!

You guys are improving so much, and I loved the video so much! You guys are such an inspiration for me.

are we not gonna talk about the bomb in thumbnail and at 1:54 is the payload from team fortress 2

I'm uncertain if it was principle or the fear of an undead cat keeping commenters from making certain jokes at Heisenberg's expense.

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Got to say I love the Soviet red it’s such a beautiful color

I love the Richtofen reference at the beginning their XD