Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

Commenters focused on whether new physical evidence changes the long-standing view that Nazi Germany could not build a bomb. Some contributors (expedition32) said postwar interrogations and bugging already made the limits clear, while others dug into the technical story: smallmancontrov argued Heisenberg’s flawed neutron-walk approximation led to grossly overestimating the uranium-235 needed, and credited Peierls and Frisch with the diffusion analysis that made a bomb feasible - a line of argument that some framed as “Jewish Science” having decisively advantaged the Allies. A few users simply praised historical resources (amsully) or noted linguistic conventions (moritzwarhier on square-bracket editorializing).

Opinion split between historical-technical explanations and modern political tangents. One commenter (ck2) used the topic to raise contemporary moral concerns about nuclear use and U.S. precedent, while others picked at editorial style, arguing over whether adding “Adolf” in brackets was unnecessary or appropriate (happytoexplain, stackghost). A couple of remarks veered into cultural asides about other people named Hitler or relatives (scun, joshblack1982, karim79). The conversation therefore oscillated between detailed technical history, ethical alarm about nuclear weapons, and minor debates about wording and associative anecdotes.