- Hitlers Bombe
"Hitlers Bombe" ("Hitler's Bomb") is a
nonfiction book by the German historianRainer Karlsch published in March2005 which claims to have evidence concerning the development and testing of a possible "nuclear weapon" byNazi Germany in1945 . The "weapon" in question is not alleged to be a standardnuclear weapon powered bynuclear fission but something closer to either aradiological weapon (a so-called "dirty bomb ") or a hybrid-nuclear fusion weapon. Its new evidence is concerned primarily with the parts of theGerman nuclear energy project underKurt Diebner .ummary
Under supervision of the SS, from 1944–45, German scientists in
Thuringia tested some form of "nuclear weapon", possibly adirty bomb (for the differences between this and a standard fission weapon, seenuclear weapon design ). Several hundredprisoners of war are alleged to have died as a result. Karlsch's primary evidence are alleged vouchers for the atomic weapon attempts, a preliminary plutonium bomb patent from the year 1941 (which had been known about, but not yet found), and conductedindustrial archaeology on the remains of the first experimental Germannuclear reactor .Follow-up research
In February 2006, full tests on the soil at the proposed test site were released by the
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), revealing no abnormal background levels of radiation after taking into account the already elevated background levels as a result of theChernobyl accident in 1986. The PTB release emphasized that while it could not necessarily rule out a German test conclusively, that soil analysis of that site revealed absolutely no evidence of it. [ [http://www.ptb.de/de/aktuelles/archiv/presseinfos/pi2006/pitext/pi060215.htm In Bodenproben keine Spur von "Hitlers Bombe"] ]References
* Rainer Karlsch - "Hitlers Bombe" (March 2005) ISBN 3-421-05809-1
External links
* [http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/18/6/3/1 New light on Hitler's bomb]
* [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,346293,00.html How Close Was Hitler to the A-Bomb?]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4348497.stm Hitler 'tested small atom bomb']
* [http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1518173,00.html Did Hitler Have the Bomb?]
* [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/03/nazi_nuke_sketch/ 'Nazi nuke' sketch unearthed]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1323954.htm Historian's claims of a Nazi atomic bomb causes controversy]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7090178/ Historian claims Nazis did nuclear tests]
* [http://www.petermann-heiko.de/aktuelles/dok_foreword.php Foreword of the upcoming English book]
* [http://www.ptb.de/de/aktuelles/archiv/presseinfos/pi2006/pitext/pi060215.htm Soil analysis results from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt] (in German)
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