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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 849231" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>There was a very real fear on our part that the Germans were preparing to hit our cities with "dirty bombs"---standard explosive warheads encased in radioactive uranium and mounted on V-2 rockets launched from U-boats. They actually had researched the idea of launching V-2's from U-boats, but the war ended before they could perfect the technology. Ironically enough, the Nazis anti-Semitism was one of the main reasons they never came close to developing a nuclear weapon of their own; many of the top nuclear physicists of that era were Jews who fled Europe.</p><p></p><p>Another little-known historical fact; 2 weeks before Germany surrendered, they sent a gigantic supply submarine, the U-234, to Japan loaded with supplies such as rocket engines, advanced radar sets, a disassembled ME-262 jet fighter...and over <strong>1,000 lbs of processed Uranium 235</strong>. The sub was in the mid-Atlantic when the war ended and the captain wound up sailing the boat to the US to surrender. The uranium was not enriched or weapons-grade, but it could have been used by the Japanese to make radioactive "dirty bombs" of their own that would have been dropped on American cities by floatplanes launched from submarines. There was actually a plan in place to do this, but it was stopped by the failure of the U-234 to reach Japan. It is widely believed that the uranium was processed by the US for use in the atomic bomb that was ultimately dropped on Hiroshima.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 849231, member: 14668"] There was a very real fear on our part that the Germans were preparing to hit our cities with "dirty bombs"---standard explosive warheads encased in radioactive uranium and mounted on V-2 rockets launched from U-boats. They actually had researched the idea of launching V-2's from U-boats, but the war ended before they could perfect the technology. Ironically enough, the Nazis anti-Semitism was one of the main reasons they never came close to developing a nuclear weapon of their own; many of the top nuclear physicists of that era were Jews who fled Europe. Another little-known historical fact; 2 weeks before Germany surrendered, they sent a gigantic supply submarine, the U-234, to Japan loaded with supplies such as rocket engines, advanced radar sets, a disassembled ME-262 jet fighter...and over [B]1,000 lbs of processed Uranium 235[/B]. The sub was in the mid-Atlantic when the war ended and the captain wound up sailing the boat to the US to surrender. The uranium was not enriched or weapons-grade, but it could have been used by the Japanese to make radioactive "dirty bombs" of their own that would have been dropped on American cities by floatplanes launched from submarines. There was actually a plan in place to do this, but it was stopped by the failure of the U-234 to reach Japan. It is widely believed that the uranium was processed by the US for use in the atomic bomb that was ultimately dropped on Hiroshima. [/QUOTE]
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