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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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The only Reactor that I have seen developed by Germany at the time was even less impressive than Pile-1 at the University of Chicago.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
Capt Daniel Goodman
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I know, and the Japanese cyclotron destroyed after ww2 I'd read of, I'd seen the photo of the German pile you'd mentioned. I'd just been really surprised when I'd seen the mission for Mussolini documentary I'd mentioned that recounted the whole German story here, I'd never heard of it till then, honest, many thanks.
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PO3 Steven Stinnett
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It was put on a submarine, sent to Japan, however the war ended before any damage...
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Capt Daniel Goodman
Capt Daniel Goodman
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I hadn't read that, I'd heard the generality, many thamks....
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PO3 Steven Stinnett
PO3 Steven Stinnett
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It was on the History Channel. I do not remember the details, it was a program involving government secrets after the war.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
PO3 Donald Murphy
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Operation Caeser. The British picked up when the sub was leaving and what was on board. An ME-262 jet engine, two German bomb "cooks" and four "bombs" needing assembly and a bit of tweaking. The resulting weapons would have been "dirty bombs" with not enough yield to create a swathe of destruction, but bomb 1 would be dropped over Ulithi Atoll and the EMP would destroy all coms. Additionally, the radiation poisoning would kill probably 100000+ allied service men and the base and ships/structures would be too "hot" to go into. With allied radiation sickness care what it was, the allied service men and women "sprayed" with the fallout would be as good as dead.

Bomb 2 would be dropped over somewhere Russia-ish where they were getting reports of massed Russian units. Same effect tho horrible Soviet health care would result in more dead. Can't remember where the other two were to be dropped. Luckily MI-6/5 picked up the sailing list and times and the best sub skipper in the Royal Navy followed it and pulled off the kill. The weapon's biggest problem was German insistence on everything being made to "Swiss watch" standards. The Japanese didn't have that problem and were basically going to stuff the guts of bomb 1 into an Ohka or Rita and just detonate it over Ulithi. Bomb 2 would be detonated on the ground. When being a Kamikaze is already "cool" there were no shortage of volunteers for the mission.
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