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david irving Secretly Overheard:
London but would still not have conquered the world. And then
they would have dropped them on us.”
WEIZSÄCKER: I don’t think we ought to make excuses now
because we did not succeed, but we must admit that we didn’t want to
succeed. If we had put the same energy into it as the Americans and
had wanted it as much as they did, it is quite certain that we would not
have succeeded as they would have smashed up the factories.
DIEBNER: Of course they were watching us all the time.
WEIZSÄCKER: One can say it might have been a much greater
tragedy for the world if Germany had had the Uranium bomb. Just
imagine, if we had destroyed London with uranium bombs it would
not have ended the war . . .
WIRTZ: We hadn’t got enough uranium.
WEIZSÄCKER: We would have had to equip long distance aircraft
with uranium engines to carry out airborne landings in the Congo or
North West Canada [areas rich in uranium ore]. We would have had
to hold these areas by military force and produce the stuff from mines.
That would have been impossible. .
HARTECK: If they have done it with mass spectrographs we cannot
be blamed. We couldn’t do that. But if they have done it through a
trick, that would annoy me.
HEISENBERG: I think we ought to avoid squabbling amongst
ourselves concerning a lost cause. In addition, we must not make
things too difficult for Hahn. . .
WEIZSÄCKER: It is a frightful position for Hahn. He really did do
it.
Heisenberg nodded agreement and they were quiet for a moment.
“About a year ago,” revealed Heisenberg, “I heard from Segner
[sic. Staatssekretär Frhr. [Adolf] von Steengracht ] from the
Auswärtiges Amt that the Americans had threatened to drop a Uranium
bomb on Dresden if we didn’t surrender soon. At that time
I was asked whether I thought it possible, and, with complete conviction,
I replied: ’No’.”
“I think it characteristic,” said Wirtz, still looking for silver
He perhaps means “94” (plutonium); “93” would be uranium.
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