Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi Nuke'

ninjee writes "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. The report containing the diagram is undated, but the researchers claim the evidence points to it being produced immediately after the end of the war in Europe. It deals with the work of German nuclear scientists during the war and lacks a title page, so there is no evidence of who composed it. One historian behind the discovery, Rainer Karlsch, caused a storm of controversy earlier this year when he claimed to have uncovered evidence the Nazis successfully tested a primitive nuclear device in the last days of WWII. A number of historians rejected the claim. The drawing is published in an article written for Physics World magazine by Karlsch and Mark Walker, professor of history at Union College in Schenectady, US."

Wow, godwin's law..

[rylin]

Godwin's Law invoked PRIOR to the first post!
Amazing!

Maybe in 60 years...

[Anonymous Coward]

This is great! There might be hope after all! Maybe in 60 years the US will find diagrams of WMD in Iraq!

Re:Maybe in 60 years...

[Anonymous Coward]

I know for certain that in 60 years time when people look back through my school notes, they will find doodles of teleporters, aliens, spacemen firing with space guns.

All of which giving first proof that the UK was already a vengeful island full of vindictive alien hating super scientists.

ob joke

[zatz]

"Heisenberg was not aware of it," Dr Karlsch explained.

Yet he knew exactly how fast it was moving....

Re:Scary to think

[shark72]

"If the Nazis had completed work on the nuclear bomb / rocket nuke then the world would be a very difrent place than it is today."

This is why we should all be glad that Captain Kirk allowed Edith Keeler to be run over by that car.

Re:Forget it.

[Anonymous Coward]

...either way it is a simple cleanup operation.

Pretty sure it would still ruin my day.

Re:FAQ

[csrster]

Is there an inverse Godwin's Law? "Any discussion of the Nazis will inexorably tend towards a discussion of Godwin's Law"

Re:Germans didn't have a Nuke

[Mocenigo]

Anyway,let's be thankful that Hitler had no nukes or there would have been no Slashdot today :-)

We would have: SCHRAEGSTRICHPUNKT! Nachrichten für Sonderlingen! Sachen von Bedeutung! instead. Ayeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Re:Forget it.

[Cat_Byte]

dirty bombs are completly ineffective though.

Be PC. Its an "unclean" bomb vs the clean type that reduces to dust particles.

Achtung! Alles Schrägstrichpunkten!

[Tackhead]

> > Anyway,let's be thankful that Hitler had no nukes or there would have been no Slashdot today :-)
>
> We would have: SCHRAEGSTRICHPUNKT! Nachrichten für Sonderlingen! Sachen von Bedeutung! instead. Ayeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Das Schrägstrichpunkt is nicht fuer das portmangritten und goatseposten. Ist easy droppenpacket der routers und machen sie 503-errorn mit der trollenpost unt der Soviet-reversen. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumbkopfen. Das craksmoken moderateren keepen das mausclicken hans in das pockets muss! Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights.

More documents uncovered!

[brucifer]

Recent historic documents have come to light that France is still not convinced of the threat posed by Hitler and should be given more time to come in line with UN Resolutions!

(yeah, probably flamebait, but I thought it was funny)