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September 16, 1939 - Germany
Army Weapons Bureau (Heereswaffenamt) recruits German scientists
for a wartime uranium project. Organizing scientists are
Nazi party members.
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September 26, 1939 - A
second conference of the Germany Army Weapons Bureau meets
to discuss Uranium fission. The Kaiser Wilhem Institute
will now house Germany's secret military nuclear-fission
project.
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December 6, 1939:
Heisenberg reports that enrichment of U235 is the only method
of producing explosives "several orders of magnitude
more powerful than the strongest explosives yet known." |
January 1940:
The first ton of highly purified uranium oxide is delivered
to the German Army Weapons office by the Auer Company. |
May 3, 1940: German
troops in Norway seize control of the world's only heavy water
production facility and step up production to supply the German
fission program. |
September 1941:
Heisenberg meets with Niels Bohr in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen
and brings up nuclear fission research. |
February 26, 1942:
At a conference in Berlin to Nazi Leaders, Heisenberg explains
that a reactor could be used in submarines, U235 can be used
to make a bomb and that a reactor could generate plutonium. |
June 4, 1942:
A secret meeting with War Minister Speer and nuclear scientists
including Heisenberg who describes atomic bombs as possible
but not in the near future. |
