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Transcript of Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (1945) [pdf]

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Take a look at Unit 731 vs. the Nazi human experimentation program during WWII. In exchange for the data gathered through 731's history, the U.S. turned a blind eye. The Nazis however were tried by U.S. military courts for conducting such experiments. Hypocrisy at its finest. Unit 731: "Instead of being tried for war crimes, the researchers involved in Unit 731 were secretly given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for…

That's the difference between utter destruction of the enemy vs an unconditional surrender with conditions. The US was put in a shitty position by the opportunistic Soviet intervention. So we ended up with a curbed emperor, an American who fancied himself an emperor, and whitewash. Remember that the Republic of China was still a thing, and the political implications of taking a relative soft approach to Japanese atro…

> unconditional surrender with conditions

I don't think that means what you think it means. Unless you are comparing the defeat of Germany (as in Debellatio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debellatio) and that of Imperial Japan which was a conditional surrender - maybe a typo on your part though, in which case, sorry.

Re: Transcript of Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (1945) [pdf]

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Very cool Article! For all the political discord going on in this day and age, reading this transcript really does make me feel proud to be an American.

For all the transcripts that make Americans happy, there are plenty that will make them miserable.

Re: Transcript of Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (1945) [pdf]

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Almost all of the enrichment process was done at oak ridge in Tennessee. It even says so in the Wikipedia page you posted.

On the other hand, we were handed on a silver platter a huge supply of hand sorted pitchblende from the Belgium Congo, with an average uranium content of 60-65% (!!!), without that we wouldn't have finished in time to finish the war. All due to one foresighted Belgium who had learned would be a very bad idea to let the Nazis get their hands on it, and arranged shipment of a lot of it to America. Where it sat in a war…

Its not the Uranium content that matters, it's the ability to extract U235 from U238.

Re: Transcript of Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (1945) [pdf]

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post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand, we were handed on a silver platter a huge supply of hand sorted pitchblende from the Belgium Congo, with an average uranium content of 60-65% (!!!), without that we wouldn't have finished in time to finish the war. All due to one foresighted Belgium who had learned would be a very bad idea to let the Nazis get their hands on it, and arranged shipment of a lot of it to America. Where it sat in a war…

Its not the Uranium content that matters, it's the ability to extract U235 from U238.

It counted because we had enough raw uranium to, indeed, separate one bomb's worth of U-235 in time, but more importantly to fuel the natural uranium reactors in which we bred plutonium, which got into high gear faster than the former.

By comparison, in the link I included is the statement that "To illustrate the uniqueness of Sengier’s stockpile, after the war the MED and the AEC considered ore containing three-tenths of 1 percent as a good find.", which comports with my memory.

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