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[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You mean the nuclear bomb? While still at war Germany and the US were head to head in the development of the first nuclear bomb.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Nazis were way behind on that front.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I was unsure which of you was right for a second, but seems like you are correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_program_during_World_War_II#Comparison_to_the_Manhattan_Project

In comparison to the Manhattan Project, mutual distrust existed between the German government and some scientists.[90][91] By the end of 1941, it was already apparent among German science and military elites that the German nuclear weapon project would not make a decisive contribution to ending the German war effort in the near term, and control of the project was relinquished by the Heereswaffenamt (HWA, Army Ordnance Office) to the Reichsforschungsrat (RFR, Reich Research Council) in July 1942.

So the germans basically gave up on nukes years before the war even ended.