How Close Were the Nazis to Making an Atomic Bomb?

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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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 your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	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.
0:08.0	The scientist and staff of the Manhattan Project were in a race to beat Nazi Germany to be the first country to build the
0:14.0	A-bomb. When Germany surrendered in May of 1945 and Americans detonated the first
0:18.8	of July of that year, they have seemingly won the race. But wasn't in fact a race at all.
0:24.0	How close were the Nazis to actually building an atomic bomb.
0:28.0	Learn more about the Nazi nuclear program
0:30.0	on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by the Tourist Office of Spain.
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1:34.0	If you were to travel back in time to the year 1930 and take bets from people about
1:41.6	which country would develop the first atomic bomb,
1:44.0	the smart money probably would have been on Germany.
1:47.0	Germany at this time had an all-star lineup of talent that was at the forefront of nuclear and quantum physics.
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