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>around 1942-43 and the Manhattan Project completely failed to get off the ground

A certain U-Boat with an auspicious designation for carrying refined Uranium & Jap officers (whom committed sudoku in protest), which surrendered off the US coast in 1943 - barely, with a britbong destroyer in hot pursuit - delivered enough material to advance the Manhattan Project timeline by half a year or more.

Doubtless, this was the basis for die-hard factions of the Japanese cabinet to insist on calling the Atomic bluff (correct: there was no third atom bomb) based on production estimates & German intelligence sharing-- in addition to the advent of early thermobarics by the Germans on the Eastern Front (coal-dust), which presumably could have been up-scaled enough to make a very large, very dirty bomb facsimile.

Picrel was Von Braun's boss as head of SS Special Projects (of which the infamous Bell Project had the HIGHER classification of "war-decisive", which not even their atomic program had . . .) There are a number of accounts now of occupied northern Poland which are highly suggestive of having achieved tactical nuclear detonations in late '44 to early '45-- so I would argue that it's a far higher than zero chance that the Krauts did in fact cross that threshold before the

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