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The plain fact of the matter is that the Germans were nowhere near getting the secret of the atom bomb. Indeed, at the rate they were going and the direction they were taking, it is anybody's guess if they would have arrived at it at all in any practicable period of time. " know how did not yet to pro- duce a chain reaction in a uranium pile. They did not know how to produce plutonium. They knew only, perhaps with typical German arrogance, that if they could not make an atom bomb, nobody else could either, and so they need not be unduly worried.

Reconnaisance planes brought us picability, tures of mysterious installations along the coast Might these not be bases for uranium piles to produce bombs or at least huge amounts of radioactive poisons? It was not surprising that our invasion troops were equipped with special of France. detectors for radioactive materials. Fortunately they proved to be unnecessary. 13 II We Prepare to Investigate German The Science original Alsos Mission, or Urmission as the Germans might have called it, was a small unit of scientific and military personnel sent to Italy by General Groves.

They knew only, perhaps with typical German arrogance, that if they could not make an atom bomb, nobody else could either, and so they need not be unduly worried. That arrogance received a terrible jolt the day our atom bomb fell on Hiroshima. These are some of the facts that were established beyond any possible argument by the Alsos Mission, of which the author of the present book had the privilege of being the scientific head. Appointed by the War Department at the request of Major General L.

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