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Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

137 points · 121 comments · xqcgrek2

expedition32 · 1790925650 · focus · HN ↗
This was already known. The British put the German scientists into a big country house after the war and bugged all the rooms. After the US dropped the atomic bombs the German scientists spent weeks discussing with eachother how the Americans could have done it. They never got it right.
1. amsully · 1790960324 · focus · HN ↗
  It’s a great read from beginning to end <a href="https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/transcript-of-surreptitiously-taped-conversations-among-german-nuclear-physicists-at-farm-hall-august-6-7-1945" rel="nofollow">https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/tran...
  1. yalok · 1790962529 · focus · HN ↗
    Amazing. Kind of reminds of the modern day discourse on potential dangers of AGI and humans misuse of it.
    Robotbeat · 1790963455 · focus · HN ↗
    Yup. The race-to-AGI-because-China in particular. I’m basically a China Hawk and generally in favor of AI development, but I can recognize the same pattern.

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