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1. 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. gib444 · 1790963806 · focus · HN ↗

      I'm trying to reconcile such wildly clever people not wondering if they were being surveiled? Or didn't they care?

      1. smallmancontrov · 1790964950 · focus · HN ↗

         This was after Germany surrendered.

         I'm sure they had suspicions and cared a bit, but in order to stay silent about their passion subjects they would have had to care more than a bit.

         1. db48x · 1790970442 · focus · HN ↗

            And they mostly hated the Nazis and were glad to be rid of them. Plus secercy obviously no longer mattered now that a bomb had actually been used. Nothing they had to say could materially advance an enemy’s nuclear program.

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