Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:23:53 -0500, kenney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>In article <QSZqe.8706$rt3.7801@xxxxxxxx>,
>tmcdonald2672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom McDonald) wrote:
>
>> I also read online an article that suggested the Nazis may have
>> tested an extremely small atomic bomb--only a small fraction of
>> the size of 'Little Boy.' This article also included reports of a
>> bright light seen by many that may have been related to the test.
>
> Making a small atomic bomb is much harder than making one the size of
>"Little Boy". That was a gun type device using a critical mass of uranium
>not an implosion device. There is no evidence the Germans ever got as far
>as a reactor. Heisenburg got the critical mass wrong to start with and the
>reactor was going to be moderated with heavy water. The entire German
>supply of heavy water was destroyed by allied action. You can not make a
>dirty bomb from unenriched uranium and there is no evidence that Germany
>ever managed to produce that. Japan was probably closer to making a bomb
>than Germany.
>
> One possible cause of confusion is that Germany may have used Uranium as
>a substitute for tungsten in AP shot. The German weapon programs were
>thoroughly investigated after the end of the war.
>
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/18/6/3/1

"Working with the journalist Heiko Petermann, RK discovered that a
group of German scientists had carried out a hitherto-unknown
nuclear-reactor experiment and tested some sort of a nuclear
device in Thüringia, eastern Germany, in March 1945. According to
eyewitness accounts given at the end of that month and two
decades later, the test killed several hundred prisoners of war
and concentration-camp inmates. Although it is not clear if the
device (figure 1) worked as intended, it was designed to use
nuclear fission and fusion reactions. It was, therefore, a
nuclear weapon."



Eric Stevens

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