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Für und Wider "Hitlers Bombe"
"Fuer und Wider Hitlers Bombe", i.e. "The pros and cons on >>Hitler's bomb<<", is a successor to Rainer Karlsch's "Hitlers Bombe", which in 2005 kindled a hitherto smouldering debate on the dimensions of Nazi Germany's WW2 nuclear weapons program. "Hitler's Bombe" culminated in the assumption that small-scale nuclear devices were tested under the auspices of the SS in October 1944 and in March 1945. Many physicists around the world would disagree, since the Germans were short of enriched uranium and obviously did not operate any nuclear reactors to breed plutonium-239. In 2006 PTB, the German National Bureau of Standards, was unable to find conclusive evidence of a nuclear excursion in soil samples taken from the Ohrdruf (Thuringia) military training area - one of the alleged test sites. Now the dispute is revived. In a dozen articles and backed by historians, journalists,...
