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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Good lord, the federal government needs to take a serious look at the Florida public school system and how its failing generations of students.
Germans discovered nuclear fission. They led the world in this area at the time.
Several nations were scrambling to build and test the first bomb at the same time. The allied forces were able to do so first, in large part due to the help of captured German physicists as well as captured documents and materials. Germany didn't do it first because they were a little pre-occupied with losing the war and being invaded/bombed into oblivion.
The Soviets were behind because they lacked sufficient materials.
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Sort of.
Two Germans discovered nuclear fission, but Nazi Germany - with their interests in weapons that would destroy the enemy - failed to capitalize on it.
Politicisation of the German scientific community caused a lot of scientists to leave Germany, and by 1942 they gave up an creating a nuclear program - While the US was devoting massive amounts of money and man power into the Manhatten program. After 1942 Germany still funded research, but that wasn't even done by the military.
This makes for an interesting read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...energy_project