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Einstein's letter to Roosevelt carried the double weight of being from the one of the foremost scientific minds of the 20th century and a German ex-pat who knew of what he spoke.
It is not a coincidence that Germany's first attacks into Western Europe included Belgium, the only European country with any sizable reserves of uranium, and that Hitler targeted the Congo in Africa for the same reason. Papers discovered in the early 2000's revealed that the Germans my have been only WEEKS away from a function nuclear bomb, not the months that is generally accepted. There are some suggestions that they even detonated a test nuclear weapon, or at least a "dirty" bomb, in March of 1945.
Had such a bomb been detonated on London via a V-2 rocket (unlikely, but possible), there is a good chance the war would have finished much differently.
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The secret to great marksmanship is deciding what the target was AFTER you've shot.
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