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has given rise to a whole "mythology, and one that has never been
adequately explored in connection with its possible influence on the
development of German secret weapons during the war.
Finally, a curious fact, one of those obvious things that one
lends to overlook unless attention is drawn to it: the atomic bomb
test that took place at the Trinity site in new Mexico was a test of
America's implosion-plutonium bomb, a test needed to see if the
concept would actually work. It did, and magnificently. But what is
immensely significant - a fact missing from almost all mainstream
literature on the subject since the end of the war - is that the
uranium bomb with its apparatus of a cannon shooting the critical
mass of uranium together, the bomb that was actually first used in
war, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was never tested. As
German author Friedrich Georg notes, this tears a rather gaping
hole in the Allied Legend:
Also another question is of great importance: Why was the uranium
bomb of the USA, unlike the plutonium bomb, not tested prior to being
hurled on Japan Militarily this would appear to be extremely
dangerous.... Did the Americans simply forget to test it, or did others
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The Allied Legend accounts for this in various ways, some
ingenious, some not so ingenious, but basically they boil down to
the assertion that it was never tested because it did not need to be,
so confident were Allied engineers that it would work. So we have
been asked to believe, by the post-war Allied spin, that the
American military dropped an atomic bomb of untested design,
based on concepts of physics that were very new and themselves
very untested, on an enemy city, an enemy also known to be
working on acquiring the atomic bomb as well!
It is indeed a badly written, truly incredible, finale to the world's
most horrendous war.
1988). It should be noted that the SS Ahnenerbedienst did come under the
tribunal's scrutiny.
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Friedrich Georg, Hitlers Siegeswaffen: Band 1: Luftwaffe und Marine:
Geheime Nuklearwaffen des Dritten Reiches und ihre Tragersysteme
(Schleusingen: Amun Verlag, 200), p. 150, my translation.
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