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Germans: “This could ignite the atmosphere so we mussnt do it!”
Americans: “This could ignite the atmosphere so please everyone cross your fingers and hope it doesn’t!”
Rational militaries: “this could be very bad for everyone!”
American military: “Let’s test that theory.”
The cool thing is that these conversations were recorded via bugging their rooms
How is spying on scientists after the end of a war a good thing?
1945: “Hahaha, no.”
1946: “Oh no.”
“Atomic science is jewish witchcraft!” - Nazis
A contributing factor I think is also that the allies had sabotaged a German heavy water producing plant in Nazi occupied Norway, which was a huge setback to Germany’s own research into nuclear weapons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage
“Ah shit…someone forgot to carry the one.”
