<div dir="ltr"><div>Just about NO ONE believes him though, which is why I did not send around earlier. </div><div>Now, just to add to the "gusts'. </div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/18/german-pensioner-claims-he-has-found-nazi-nuclear-bombs/">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/18/german-pensioner-claims-he-has-found-nazi-nuclear-bombs/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Monte Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:montedavis49@gmail.com" target="_blank">montedavis49@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Weisenburger and others make an unassailable case for P's familiarity with David Irving's <i>The Mare's Nest</i>, a 1964 account of the V-weapons, what UK intelligence knew about them, and UK/US military efforts to combat them. What Irving captured best is London's confusion as late as mid-1944 among "flying bombs," large rockets, and the ultra-long-range artillery in northern France that could have hit London (but was overrun after D-Day well before it was ready).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Those around Churchill who doubted a large rocket began by arguing "it can't be done," and as evidence accumulated shifted to "maybe it could be done, but it doesn't make sense." I.e., it  would cost so much more (about fifty times as much as a V-1, as it proved) to deliver about the same weight of explosive, and demanded much more in specialized high technologies that were desperately needed in other areas of the war.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In an August 1944 report summarized by Irving, scientific advisor R.V. Jones realized how he and his peers had been led astray by such practical considerations: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">"...he recalled how Intelligence had been forced to enter a fantasy world where</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">romance had replaced economy. Why had the Germans expended years of intensive research, an elaborate radio control, and tons of costly fuel to throw at London a warhead not much larger than that already carried far more cheaply by the flying bomb? To him, the answer seemed obvious: no other weapon had produced a comparable “romantic appeal.†Here was a 13-ton missile which traced out a flaming ascent to heights hitherto beyond the reach of man, and hurled itself 200 miles at unparalleled speeds across the stratosphere, to descend upon its defenceless target.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">"What did it matter that the German Air Force [which ran the V-1 program] was doing the same damage much more cheaply? The Army’s rocket was a fantastic technical achievement which had captured the imagination of the Nazis. There was surely no deeper policy behind the rocket."</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">You can't run a war on gusts of emotion, Adolf.</div><div class="gmail_default">  <br></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div>
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