fschmidt wrote:
Jester wrote:
But the Germans invented the A-Bomb....
They detonated one on a platform in the Baltic, it was viewed by an Allied recon pilot.
I know that it is false because my father was a nuclear physicist who personally knew the people involved on the American side. He also knew about the German research and that it was nowhere close to developing a bomb.
Sorry I dont have a link, but a Brit or American pilot saw the test, from a platform on the Baltic. Almost crashed in the ensuing blast.
Not a theory, there was a credible eyewitness.
It's not the official history, so it's not widely reported. But it makes sense, if you think about it. No Anglo-American atom bomb, then Germany falls, and all of a sudden we have one.
But... anyway... I thought your father was busy in the Resistance, blowing up German trains?
Regardless of his ubiquity, in an interesting coincidence, MY father was ALSO a physicist, who was privileged to study under Feynman at Caltech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
and attended Werner Von Braun's highly classified lecture at Hughes Aircraft on missile targeting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#United_States
and knew Teller (yes, a Jew), the "father of the H-Bomb", as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller
And, you know, did some other stuff too.
Small world!
"Well actually, she's not REALLY my daughter. But she does like to call me Daddy... at certain moments..."