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Article: what if hitler had built the bomb?; One of the last mysteries of the war is how America beat Nazi Germany to the Atom Bomb. Was it down to the conscience of one brilliant scientist - or incompetence?
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2001
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Byline: PETER LEWIS
THE MANHATTAN Project - the vast wartime atomic bomb programme at Los Alamos in New Mexico that kept 600,000 people working day and night at a cost of $2 billion - was driven by fear.
Fear that the Germans would get there first.
If they had produced an atomic bomb, even in 1945, it could have won the war for the Nazis.
Not only Albert Einstein, in his famous letter of warning to President Roosevelt, but many Jewish refugee scientists from Germany who were by then working on the Manhattan Project, shared this fear.
Until the war, Germany had been the leading scientific nation. In charge of their atomic ...