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    NAZIS CLOSER THAN THEY KNEW TO NUCLEAR REACTOR

    Jul 30, 2019 2 minutes
    REPORTED AND WRITTEN BY PAUL WISEMAN

    DEEMING THE FOCUS of their discovery “a failure worth celebrating,” two academic researchers learned that the Nazis bungled their nuclear weapons program and missed a chance to develop a reactor during World War II.

    A winding trail of evidence led to the realization that the Germans had indeed possessed enough uranium cubes

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