Hitler's Bomb
Hitler’s Bomb (Hitlers Bombe) is a nonfictional book concerning evidence for a possible atomic weapons test in Nazi Germany.
Catalog informationpublication date: March 2005ISBN 3421058091 Summary
Under supervision of the SS, from 1944-55, German scientists in Thuringia tested an atomic bomb, possibly a dirty bomb. Several hundred prisoners of war died. After searching for many years, historian Rainer Karlsch uncovered one of the largest mysteries of the Third Reich. Beside vouchers for the atomic weapon attempts, he also found a design for a plutonium bomb patent, from the year 1941 and discovered, in the Berlin countryside, remains of the first functioning German atomic reactor.
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This book has produced considerable controversy. It has been mostly criticized in the press. Whatever scientists, military and politicians may have believed at the time, a fusion bomb as described by Karlsch never would have had any chance of working. This does not mean that it wasn't tried, and if the evidence holds up under scrutiny, Karlsch' discovery of the attempt will shed an important new light on scientific and military history.
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