Am 13.03.2007 um 19:11 schrieb Mike McCarty:
Michelle Konzack wrote:Am 2007-03-08 16:22:20, schrieb Mitja Podreka:Also everybody in the US would be speaking German in that case.But I guess this could not happen. The WW2 would for sure last longer if there were no US help, but the end result would be the sameBut do you know, that the USA had stolen the knowledge about nuclear fission from the germans? If the german had 5 years more time, maybe the have developed the first Atombomb!This is ridiculous. Atomic fission was a known phenomenon before WWII even started.
It may be ridicolous, but it is a wll known fact that the winners (especially former USSR and USA) where fighting to get as many german scientists as possible behind the scenes.
Which doesn't mean that Atomic Fisson wasn't known by anyone else at that time it was just the case that the germans where really advanced in a lot of scientific fields
/martin