June 01, 2005

Nazi nuke?

History still holds many mysteries. Did they or didn't they?

Historians working in Germany and the US claim to have found a 60-year-old diagram showing a Nazi nuclear bomb. It is the only known drawing of a "nuke" made by Nazi experts and appears in a report held by a private archive.

The researchers who brought it to light say the drawing is a rough schematic and does not imply the Nazis built, or were close to building, an atomic bomb.

But a detail in the report hints some Nazi scientists may have been closer to that goal than was previously believed.

Related:

• Physics World - New Light on Hitler's Bomb

Posted by Alan at June 1, 2005 12:26 PM