Prabhupada knew it 30 yrs before BBC

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> Prabhupada knew this info 30 yrs before BBC

> "So far, of course, I know that this nuclear weapon was already

discovered by the German people and Hitler, it is said that he did

not use it. Because he knew it that "If I throw this nuclear weapon

there will be devastation." So from this point it can be considered

that he had some human consideration. So he's advertised very

adversely, but if it is a true fact, then how he could have this

human consideration that he did not throw the nuclear weapon? And

this was taken by the Americans and it was thrown in Japan. That is

the history so far we know. So anyway, as we have got experience, the

nuclear weapon is very, very dangerous. Similarly the brahmastra is

also very, very dangerous."

> AC BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA

> LECTURE given in Vrndavana, September 16, 1976

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> Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi nuke'

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> The diagram appears in an undated report about nuclear weapons work

in Nazi Germany

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> 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 Nazis were far away from a 'classic' atomic bomb. But they

hoped to combine a 'mini-nuke' with a rocket

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> Rainer Karlsch

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> 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.

> 'Mini-nuke'

> The newly uncovered document was discovered after the publication

of Karlsch's book, Hitlers Bombe (Hitler's Bomb), in which he made

the nuclear test claim.

> "The Nazis were far away from a 'classic' atomic bomb. But they

hoped to combine a "mini-nuke" with a rocket," Dr Karlsch told the

BBC News website.

> "The military believed they needed around six months more to bring

the new weapon into action. But the scientists knew better how

difficult it was to get the enriched uranium required."

> The head of Nazi Germany's nuclear energy programme was the

physicist Werner Heisenberg. Though he was highly accomplished in

other areas of physics, Heisenberg failed to understand a key aspect

of nuclear fission chain reactions.

> Heisenberg's uncertainty

> Some researchers say this led him to overestimate the amount of

uranium - the so-called fissile material - required to build a

nuclear bomb.

> Hitler was desperate for weapons that would turn the tide of the

war

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> However, the German report contains an estimate of slightly more

than 5kg for the critical mass of a plutonium bomb. This is

comparatively close to the real figure and may suggest some Nazi

scientists had a better grasp of nuclear fission than Heisenberg.

> Professor Paul Lawrence Rose of Pennsylvania State University, US,

and author of a 1998 book about the German uranium programme, said he

had no reason to believe the report was not genuine, but was dubious

about the significance of the critical mass detail.

> "Though it's wonderful to find the 5kg figure written on the

document, one has to be sceptical about the rationale for it. Even if

it's true and [some scientists] did understand it, Heisenberg's group

wouldn't have accepted it," Rose told the BBC News website.

> He further speculated it was possible the author arrived at this

figure by reading the Smyth Report into the development of the US

atomic bomb, which was published in July 1945. But Karlsch and Walker

reject this claim.

> Bombshell claim

> In Hitlers Bombe, Dr Karlsch suggests a team of scientists directed

by the physicist Kurt Diebner, which was in competition with

Heisenberg's group, tested a primitive nuclear device in Thuringia,

eastern Germany, in March 1945.

> Rose says that this is unlikely. Transcripts of conversations taped

by MI6 when the scientists were held captive in England after the war

show Diebner lacked the knowledge to have done this, he claims.

> "Karlsch revealed some very important details in his book, but I

can't go along with the picture he constructs with those details - of

a Nazi nuclear test," said Professor Dieter Hoffmann of the Max

Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

> But in their Physics World article, Karlsch and Walker point to

evidence of innovations made by Diebner's team, including a nuclear

reactor design superior to that produced by Heisenberg's group.

> "[Diebner] got the research papers from all other groups and he

could control the information flux. Only a few scientists around

Diebner knew about his bomb project. Heisenberg was not aware of it,"

Dr Karlsch explained.

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