How Close Were the Nazis to Making an Atomic Bomb? (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ During the second world war, one of the biggest efforts of the war was the Manhattan Project: the secret American program to create an atomic bomb. The scientists and staff of the Manhattan Project were in a race to beat Nazi Germany to be the first country to build the A-bomb. When Germany surrendered in May 1945, and Americans detonated the first device in July, they had seemingly won the race. But was it in fact a race at all? How close were the Nazis to actually building an atom bomb? Learn more about the Nazi nuclear program on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. -------------------------------- Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.
0:04.0	During the Second World War, one of the biggest efforts of the war was the Manhattan Project,
0:12.0	the secret American program to create an atomic bomb.
0:15.6	The scientist and staff of the Manhattan Project were in a race to beat Nazi Germany to be the first country to build
0:20.9	the A-bomb. When Germany surrendered in May of
0:23.5	1945 and Americans detonated the first device in July of that year, they had
0:27.8	seemingly won the race. But wasn't in fact a race at all. How close were the
0:32.3	Nazis to actually building an atomic
0:34.2	bomb. Learn more about the Nazi nuclear program on this episode of
0:38.0	Everything Everywhere Daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. If you were to travel back in time to the year 1930 and take bets from people
1:16.9	about which country would develop the first atomic bomb, the smart money
1:20.4	probably would have been on Germany. Germany at this time had an all-star
1:24.6	lineup of talent that was at the forefront of nuclear and quantum physics.
1:28.1	Max Plank, Albert Einstein, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, and many others were all Germans who were some of the top
1:36.0	physicist in the world at that time.
1:38.3	However, whatever high hopes the German physics world had changed dramatically when the Nazi party came to power in 1933.
1:46.2	Their racial theories caused many of the top German scientists to flee the country, including
1:50.1	the likes of Albert Einstein.
1:52.4	As Germany began annexing more countries, other scientists began to flee as well.
1:57.0	Leading physicists from Hungary, Austria, and Denmark, all left to find refuge mostly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
2:04.3	On top of the physicist leaving, Nazis also had bizarre prohibitions about teaching what
2:09.2	they called Jewish physics, which was mainly Einstein's theory of relativity.
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