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Fortunately no.
They began a project lead by Werner Heisenberg to build atomic bombs. However they made some mistakes (e.g. not realizing that commercial graphite is contaminated with boron [which captures neutrons] they chose the much more expensive heavy water instead as the moderator for their reactors, an incorrect calculation of the critical mass of uranium-235 by more than an order of magnitude too high suggested that if they did build an atomic bomb it would be too heavy for any bomber that could be built during the war to carry) that caused the project to be scaled back to just research on reactors that might be scaled up after the Nazis won the war to build nuclear power plants. It also appears they may have been unaware of plutonium.
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What Arab countries have nuclear weapons?
Pakistan has about 100 nuclear weapons.
Did they use nuclear weapons in the holocaust?
No, Nazi Germany had no nuclear weapons.
How was the use of nuclear weapons involved in Korean war?
No nuclear weapons were used in the Korean War.....
Why was the USSR identified as a superpower?
- Nuclear weapons - They could shut up America if they wanted to - Huge army - Good strategy in their military history - Did a lot of damage to the nazis - Russia's awesome
Where are nuclear fusions used?
Only in nuclear weapons
Why did nuclear weapons develop?
because their time had come.
Is denmark suspected of trying to develop nuclear weapons?
no
Which country assisted china to develop nuclear weapons?
Originally the USSR was assisting them with reactors and was promising to supply nuclear weapons if needed, so China would not have to develop their own. However the USSR withdrew from this agreement in 1959. This caused China to begin their own nuclear weapons project, culminating in their first test in 1964. So nobody assisted China to develop nuclear weapons. They did it on their own.
Was japan trying to develop nuclear weapons?
In WW2 I believe they were trying to.
What is the name of the government program to develop nuclear weapons?
Manhattan Project
Why did people invented nuclear weapons?
War fear that the Nazis would do it first - then there would be no chance to stop them.
Why government have to continued to develop nuclear weapons?
cos they can and u cant do anything about it!
Should nations have the freedom to develop nuclear weapons?
Any answer to this question would be pure opinion, but I sincerely believe that nations should not have the freedom to develop nuclear weapons. The more nations that have them, the more likely it becomes that they will be used.
What was the effort during WW2 to develop the first nuclear weapons of the US?
Manhattan Project.
What did Einstein suggest the president should do?
Einstein made recommendations to FDR to develop atomic weapons before the Nazis did .
Should Iran be allowed to develop nuclear weapons?
No because they will just attack us.they already have to many nuclear weapons they dont need anymore.
Why countries feel they must develop nuclear weapons and who are these countries?
They feel the need to have nuclear weapons so they have protection against nuclear threats or actually anykind of threat. Countries might be Iran, Iraq, Russia(U.S.S.R)
