Did the Germans Develop an Atomic Bomb?

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I believe there are a person in this room who doesn't really believe that had the Germans been able to do any more than they did that they wouldn't have done. Although you would have stopped the area bombing earlier, it wasn't impossible for the Germans to have been on the track of an atomic bomb. A lot of people in authority have said that even after the British crossed the Rhine had the Germans got an atomic device earlier. To what extent were high command aware of or rightly or wrongly that the Germans might be developing a bomb? Next question.

No one doubts the bravery of the thousands of men who flew and died in Bomber Command. The death rate was an appalling 44%. And yet until the opening of a monument in Green Park this year they have received no official recognition, with many historians claiming that the offensive was immoral and unjustified. How can it be right, they argue, for the Allies to have deliberately targeted German cities causing the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians? Even on a strategic level the offensive failed to bring about the collapse of civilian morale that was its intention. Others, however, maintain that the attacks made a decisive contribution to the Allied victory. Vast numbers of German soldiers and planes were diverted from the eastern and western fronts, while Allied bombing attacks virtually destroyed the German air force, clearing the way for the invasion of the continent. In this debate from October 2012, philosopher and author A C Grayling and Professor of History at Exeter University Rochard Overy...

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