The Race for the A-Bomb: Nazi Germany’s Research and the Manhattan Project | FULL DOCUMENTARY

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  • Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2024

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  • @Jack0trades
    @Jack0trades Месяц назад +18

    You can know either precisely where Heisenberg is, or how fast he is going.
    But not both.

    • @davidwright3461
      @davidwright3461 Месяц назад +3

      I have some uncertainty about that 😂

    • @iitzfizz
      @iitzfizz 21 день назад +1

      Turns out God does play dice

  • @jodiunger9425
    @jodiunger9425 Месяц назад +9

    The ramifications of the race for the bomb stretch further than most realize, many small unknown towns like Fort Fitzgerald near Fort Smith NWT Canada remain highly contaminated with radioactive ore that came from Uranium city SK for the Manhattan project, cancer rates among the population remain high to this day.

  • @BryanM61
    @BryanM61 Месяц назад +10

    Einstein did NOT write that letter; Szilard did. Szilard convinced Einstein to sign it, which Einstein did only begrudgingly.

    • @rockets4kids
      @rockets4kids Месяц назад +1

      That letter appears in every documentary, but it was the Frisch-Peierls memorandum which actually drove development of the bomb.

    • @dmbeaster
      @dmbeaster Месяц назад

      @@rockets4kids The MAUD memo turned it from a theory project into something that looked feasible. You are right that the Szilard-Einstein letter did not create the real fire for the project. Also, at that time the US was not in the war, but the British were when the MAUD memo was written. It explains the two different reactions

    • @rockets4kids
      @rockets4kids Месяц назад +2

      @@dmbeaster What is even more interesting here is that Werner Heisenberg never even bothered to work out the math of Frisch-Peierls until *after* he learned of the Hiroshima bomb.

    • @dmbeaster
      @dmbeaster Месяц назад +1

      @@rockets4kids Of course, he never saw nor knew about the Frisch-Peierls work. He did correctly predict in early 1942 to the Nazi bureaucrats that it would take a long time, cost a fortune, and success was uncertain regarding development of a bomb. They then opted not to bother except to fund basic research on nuclear energy.

    • @iitzfizz
      @iitzfizz 21 день назад +1

      Indeed, the letter was written in advance and they just wanted Einstein to sign it since his name (at the time) held more weight to it and of course it was a pressing issue and they needed them to take notice right away.

  • @DT__1
    @DT__1 Месяц назад +8

    ...what people are ready to do to each other is freaking ridiculous...

    • @Gloocar
      @Gloocar Месяц назад +1

      Then what people may want to do to themselves may shock you

    • @joszoet4003
      @joszoet4003 Месяц назад

      As an action or as an reaction...

    • @artjohnLagas-gk6mg
      @artjohnLagas-gk6mg 19 дней назад

      Human beings are nothing nice

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Месяц назад +3

    It was a 2nd time I saw this wonderful documentary. Thanks for sharing .

  • @gaittr
    @gaittr 25 дней назад +2

    This documentor is so an accurate it's unbelievable

  • @Dontshootthemessenger-l6h
    @Dontshootthemessenger-l6h Месяц назад +26

    The security wasn't that good, because Stalin knew about the Manhattan project even before Truman did.

    • @allangibson8494
      @allangibson8494 Месяц назад +2

      Security was so bad the US Army hired a current serving NKGB (Russian foreign intelligence officer (not an agent, an actual Russian trained officer)) as Radiation Safety Officer on the Manhattan Project (he was shifted from working on Radar systems by the army)…
      Stalin and Beria were better technically briefed than anyone outside the actual Manhattan Project (and most of the people IN it).

    • @Dontshootthemessenger-l6h
      @Dontshootthemessenger-l6h Месяц назад +1

      @@allangibson8494 interesting.

    • @jkoonce4244
      @jkoonce4244 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@allangibson8494all part of the plan

    • @jkoonce4244
      @jkoonce4244 Месяц назад +1

      Trueman knew do some research we Todd

    • @allangibson8494
      @allangibson8494 Месяц назад +3

      @@jkoonce4244 Truman wasn’t fully briefed until he became president.

  • @jorgebordon5131
    @jorgebordon5131 Месяц назад +5

    The US ordered Heisenberg to be assassinated, the assassin would be the baseball player and OSS agent Moe Berg, Moe did not kill Heisenberg, but he was still decorated, the reason is that he brought to the US invaluable information, which was that Heisenberg had already calculated the critical mass of Uranium, so it was just a matter of time before humanity's first nuclear test was carried out....which was on October 12, 1944 on the Island of Rügen. The US was a year behind in its nuclear plan with respect to the German nuclear plan. After making this calculation, Heisenberg hands it over to Kurt Diebner, who will develop the Zentner 76 bomb. It no longer made sense to kill Heisenberg.

    • @dmbeaster
      @dmbeaster Месяц назад

      total nonsense. There was never any German bomb. Moe did not assassinate Heisenberg because it was clear that they were making zero progress on a bomb.

  • @jokodihaynes419
    @jokodihaynes419 Месяц назад +3

    "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."-Julius Robert Oppenheimer Father of the atomic bomb

    • @naciremasti
      @naciremasti Месяц назад

      That's definitely NOT a Robert Oppenheimer quote.
      That is directly quoted from the Bhagavad Gita.

  • @dmbeaster
    @dmbeaster Месяц назад +1

    Fuchs did not provide a "turnkey manual" of an atomic bomb. What he did provide was a general guide which was crucial for a different reason. The Soviets had to figure out the details, but they knew that the plan would work once they figured it out. They did not have to lose time on blind alleys.

  • @dmbeaster
    @dmbeaster Месяц назад +1

    Finding 12,000 tons of uranium ore was of little value. Uranium is pretty common. Ore was rare as of 1945 because nobody had been mining it (it was a useless byproduct of radium mining), so people had a false sense as to its alleged importance. That rapidly changed.

  • @seifertstefan62
    @seifertstefan62 29 дней назад +1

    So the Germans would have been so ruthless to use that bomb. The US would only use it for self defense. Really? - And could it be that the Germans were actually far more advanced and Heisenberg and his reactor was a decoy? - Just asking.

  • @Swellington_
    @Swellington_ Месяц назад +1

    The amount of money spent on developing and researching and everything that went into it is staggering

    • @naciremasti
      @naciremasti Месяц назад

      This project and the vengeance weapons.

    • @jerryhoughton1869
      @jerryhoughton1869 Месяц назад +1

      The B29 cost more than the BOMB

    • @jerryhoughton1869
      @jerryhoughton1869 Месяц назад +1

      More than 4 billion dollars were spent developing the bomb and the plane that carried it

    • @denvan3143
      @denvan3143 Месяц назад

      $2 billion we spent on the atomic bomb, $3 billion were spent on the B-29. ​@@jerryhoughton1869

    • @dps8114
      @dps8114 Месяц назад +1

      @@jerryhoughton1869 2 billion were recorded spent on the atomic bomb. Also, this was in the 40s when a brand new Chevy truck cost USD 180. And rent for a 4 bedroom town house is around $16/month

  • @rhasdiemandi19
    @rhasdiemandi19 Месяц назад +2

    A VERY GOOD DOCUMENTARY!!! 👏🏻👏🏻😍

  • @UgochukwuNwankwo-f8i
    @UgochukwuNwankwo-f8i Месяц назад

    These scientist were soo valuable that nations were struggling to get them

  • @tolik5929
    @tolik5929 Месяц назад +1

    At some point , there will be a guy that doesnt care about the consequenses , and use it anyway .

  • @jerryhoughton1869
    @jerryhoughton1869 Месяц назад +3

    I read it was uranium from the Belgium Congo

    • @scipioafricanus9841
      @scipioafricanus9841 Месяц назад

      It was rather the American bomb which was produced with uranium from the Congo.

    • @dmbeaster
      @dmbeaster Месяц назад +2

      Most of it was from there, but a significant amount also from old radium mines in Canada

  • @joszoet4003
    @joszoet4003 Месяц назад +2

    Read the book "Hitlers Bom " by Rainer Karlsch for a very detailed story about the development of the German atomic bomb..

    • @dmbeaster
      @dmbeaster Месяц назад

      The book is garbage. There was never a German bomb or even a meaningful German bomb project.

    • @joszoet4003
      @joszoet4003 Месяц назад

      @@dmbeaster did you read the book...? Dont think so..

    • @dmbeaster
      @dmbeaster Месяц назад

      @@joszoet4003 I have read the thesis of the book. I have read widely on the topic. I do not need to read the details of a fraudulent book to know that it is a fraud. Karlsch himself only asserts that the evidence "suggests" a German bomb and test. He also has been described as having a catastrophic lack of understanding of physics. No credible historian on the topic buys into his nonsense

  • @jorgebordon5131
    @jorgebordon5131 Месяц назад +5

    Please look for the photos on Tinian Island....there are two Little Boys, L I which is a US production failed the electrical test, the second one is painted as L II which is a Zentner 76, then you will see the L II being loaded onto the B 29 Enola Gay Bomber. L II is actually a German Zentner 76. If you compare both bombs you will notice that the electrical package is slightly different. On its tail you will notice the differences in the plates, one is bent and the other is welded... Greetings from Argentina, I used Google translator to write this.

    • @dmbeaster
      @dmbeaster Месяц назад +1

      Total nonsense

    • @jorgebordon5131
      @jorgebordon5131 Месяц назад +1

      @@dmbeaster It is easy to say or criticize without having taken the time to investigate anything and be just one more of the flock that believes everything they are told...

    • @dmbeaster
      @dmbeaster Месяц назад

      @@jorgebordon5131 No. I am a serious student of history, and know baloney when its obvious. You are just peddling nonsense -- either you are a fool who buys into conspiracy nonsense, or you deliberately peddle these lies.

    • @jorgebordon5131
      @jorgebordon5131 Месяц назад +2

      @@dmbeaster Dear friend, if you think differently, I would never call you stupid... because it would show that I am a person with very bad manners with my fellow men... having said that, let me move on to the details: The Zentner 76 was the trigger-type fuse bomb designed by the Nazis, in the US it was known as Little Boy, the US manufactured a copy, in the photos of Tinian Island you can identify it as "L I" (Little 1) but this bomb did not pass the electrical test, there is a photo of the "L I" next to the electrical control equipment. Quickly, Officer Albert Francis Birch will paint on the hull of the German Zentner 76 some letters: "L II" which passed the electrical test and will be loaded on the Enola Gay, please look for the photo of the bomb load and you will notice that it says "LII" and a piece of cloth has been placed over these letters..... Then if you look for Oppenheimer's biography, in 1947 a journalist who knew what had happened on the island of Tinian asks Oppenheimer directly: Why didn't they test Little Boy before? Oppenheimer answers: there was no need, the Germans had already tested it, a big mess was created and the conference was suspended. Curious that in some versions of Wikipedia this does not appear in the "Los Alamos" section... Oppenheimer was a person of great intellectual honesty and knew that one day the truth would be known, that is why he named his test Trinity.... because it was the third atomic test carried out by humanity, the first was on the Island of Rügen on October 12, 1944, the second at the SS arsenal in Thuringia in February 1945, the main witness of the first test was Luigi Romersa, an Italian, personal friend of von Braun and sent by Mussolini to witness the test, Luigi would write articles for NATO after the war, in 1982 he describes the first atomic test carried out by humanity on the Island of Rügen, the article can be found in the Revista Militar Defensa of 1982, the magazine is published in several languages. The model of atomic bomb used in this test was what would later be called "Göring's pineapple". You can find the details in the book "Hitlers Bomber" by the author Dr. Rainer Karlsch from 2006. The second test of a Zentner 76 was in Thuringia and slave workers were used in the test (600 prisoners were killed) the test was larger than expected so the radiation affected the inhabitants of the surrounding areas. The site of the explosion is northwest of the Jonastal III complex. This is the bomb that in the West will later be called Little Boy, it is made of enriched uranium and had a charge of 60-66 kg of that material. If you look at the now "released" photos of Tinian Island you will find that there are two "different" Little Boy bombs in the electronic package, their tails are made differently and with different types of solder...the darker one is the German one, which was carried as a "muletto" but had to be used when the "American" Little Boy failed the electrical test...that is why Albert Francis Birch painted on the German one "L II" with a brush. Look for the bomb load on the Enola Gay and you will notice that it says LII painted with a brush. I am very sorry that in many countries the truth has not been told about this moment in history...in fact the bomb that failed the electrical test was made with German enriched uranium, taken to the US by U-boat 234...the content of which was paid for by Japan in metallic gold and was never delivered. The U-boat was carrying 540 kilos of enriched uranium destined for the design of the Japanese atomic bomb, a project led by Hideki Yokawa who will be a Nobel Prize winner in 1948. I leave you as a final greeting the words of Napoleon: "... history is a set of lies, agreed upon ..." I used Google translator

    • @dmbeaster
      @dmbeaster Месяц назад

      @@jorgebordon5131 The Germans never produced a bomb. They never conducted isotope separation of U235 in order to make a bomb. They never had a working nuclear reactor. They never made any plutonium, nor even researched the question.
      There was never a U-Boat transmitting enriched uranium to Japan.
      The facilities necessary for a nuclear program were gigantic. Germany never built any. You cannot hide such a program. It never existed.

  • @eurobennati4754
    @eurobennati4754 Месяц назад

    yess

  • @kcharles8857
    @kcharles8857 Месяц назад

    Excellent documentary

  • @billmalec
    @billmalec 23 дня назад

    Why why why do recent you tubers' videos insist on background music.. It really gets annoying.

  • @JustinWillis-gq5ew
    @JustinWillis-gq5ew Месяц назад

    A thousand year Reich that only lasted for 12 years lol

  • @c_lo01
    @c_lo01 День назад

    Funny how the truth isnt always that.

  • @colettemccoy2921
    @colettemccoy2921 Месяц назад

    13:44 But math and science say it will work 😊😂❤(stem)!😊

  • @marcleewinser8534
    @marcleewinser8534 Месяц назад

    Just look at his Name: Klaus FUCHS. Any Questions? Sometimes Nomen really est Omen...

  • @Lu-pt2bf
    @Lu-pt2bf Месяц назад +1

    Hail

  • @hamzaraj7625
    @hamzaraj7625 27 дней назад

    اگر یہ جیت جاتا أج اسرائیل نام کا ناسور پیدا نہ ھوتا

  • @Sk_fargo
    @Sk_fargo 27 дней назад

    Oppenheimer. Joker😂

  • @johncraig7823
    @johncraig7823 Месяц назад +1

    Grrr why are you using a post war map of Germnay?

  • @alifarah7801
    @alifarah7801 19 дней назад

    I been watching SLICE 4 YEAR'S I LIKED MUST OF THERE VIDEO'S SO FAR BUT I FIND THIS ONE LITTLE BIT BIASED AND AS A EDUCATED FOOL I LEARNED LONG TIME AGO TO READ BETWEEN THE LINES AND DRAW MY OWN CONCLUSION...AND I DO UNDERSTAND THERE POINT OF VIEW ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO NAZIS AND IN PARTICULAR THE JEW'S YOU TRY TO TELL THE TRUTH AND YOU ARE OUT OF THE PICTURE...SO MY POINT IS IN THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO NARRATIVE YOU SAY GERMANY HAD THE BEST SCIENTISTS AND WHERE ONE AND HALF YEARS A HEAD OF AMERICA... STILL LATER YOU SAID AMERICA ROUNDED UP THE BEST SCIENTIST'S OF THE WORLD... LIKE YOU SAID A HONGARIEN SCIENTIST CAME TO ALBERT ENSTEIN TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE US PRESIDENT... THAT WAS TO PROTECT THERE PEOPLE'S AND NOT IN THE INTEREST OF THE USA... AND WE ALL KNOW THAT PEARL HARBOUR ATTACK COULD BE AVOIDED SO WE ALL HAVE TO MAKE A LIVING....😂😂😂