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For decades, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) kept a record of all of its investigations into extraterrestrial activity in one extensive report called Project Blue Book ( http://www.archives.gov/foia/ufos.html ). Up until last week Project Blue Book's massive catalog of over 10,000 UFO and extraterrestrial reports from the 1940s to the 1970s had only been accessible by visiting the National Archives in Washington. Now the archives are available online. ( http://projectbluebook.theblackvault.com )
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A shapely CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRL is FIDGETING inside my costume..
(Score: 2) by Adamsjas on Saturday January 24 2015, @02:43AM
I suspect you are referring to the Horten 2-29
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090625-hitlers-stealth-fighter-plane.html [nationalgeographic.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:29AM
... futuristic secret weapons.
I don't know but speculate that Hitler could have won had he picked just a few reasonably successful types of weapons then persisted with them throughout the war. That's what the Soviets did - they designed only five different types of bombers during the war.
The germans made substantial progress towards producing plutonium with a heavy water reactor but lacked the electric power required for the calutrons, which were the choice at the time for refining uranium (uranium hexafluoride turbines had not yet been developed). It's easy to design a uranium bomb but hard to refine the uranium. It's hard to make a plutonium bomb but it's easy to synthesize plutonium.
The german atom bomb effort was defeated by fifteen Norwegian commandos who were towed from England in a glider, landed in a snowy field, blew the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant to meaty chunks, then when Adolf tried to make off with his last jug of moonshine, the commandos sunk a fully-loaded passenger ferry.
Adults could swim but won't somebody think of the children? "Children your attention please! Life jacket drill! Everyone on with your life jacket! Here let me help you BANG!"
Shortly after the war, the allies found a deep underground heavy water reactor, one-third filled with heavy water. That ferry didn't have enough heavy water but heavy water is easy to distill (sort of). Had they kept the water on the ferry, the chances are pretty good that Hitler would have vaporized London and Moscow, possibly New York and Washington DC as well.
When I was a grad student at UC Santa Cruz, an elderly Physicist spoke at our colloqium. He told us that when he himself was but a grad student, he tended bar at a cocktail party in which British, American and German Physicists openly discussed nuclear weapons design.
Go to any University library then look through the Physics journals from the late 1930 - Physical Review and such. Look for well-known names like Leo Szilard, Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. I did that once and my eyes popped out. Those journals are full of work that I would have thought should have been classified Top Secret, however war had not broken out yet.
I don't think Heisenberg himself was a NAZI - I really don't know - but he led that German A-Bomb effort.
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