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posted by janrinok on Saturday October 29 2016, @06:41AM   Printer-friendly

As part of Operation Epsilon, captured German nuclear physicists were secretly recorded at Farm Hall, a house in England where they were interned. Here's how the German scientists reacted to the news (on August 6th, 1945) that an atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima, taken from the now-declassified transcripts (pp. 116-122 of this copy):

Otto Hahn (co-discoverer of nuclear fission): I don't believe it... They are 50 years further advanced than we.

Werner Heisenberg (leading figure of the German atomic bomb effort): I don't believe a word of the whole thing. They must have spent the whole of their £500,000,000 in separating isotopes: and then it is possible.

It's interesting to read how the German scientists reacted, and how some of them seemed to have not wanted to succeed in doing the same thing for the Nazis.


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @10:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @10:24AM (#420079)

    For me, the most telling quote was:

    "I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline."

    Damning evidence that even the German scientists in the 1940's were part of the global elite's conspiracy to help China win the trade war.

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