BBC NEWS | Europe | Hitler 'tested small atom bomb'

[Kumpe]

Karlsch had a an excerpt ogf his book pre-released in the right wing
magazine "Eurpäische Geschichte". It had some propagandistic tendencies. He
described german research in nuclear physics and boasts about Otto Hahn,
without mentioning Liese Meitner.  Besides Karlsch's possibly political
inclinartion, we will have to wait till someone else takes measurements of
radiation in the alleged testing areas. Karlsch's main point is, and here
things get pynchonian, that there was a B-team in the Reich working on a
reactor called "Uranmaschine", consisting of different scientist than the
well known group around Heisenberg and Weizsäcker, who worked on a reactor
that never became critical. According to Karlsch, The Heisenberg team was
considered politicaly unreliable, and thus the undercover team Karlsch
decribes came into existence.

I agree with Kai, when advises scepticism. I guess this will provoke
interesting reactions. One for example came from an anonymus american
expert who stated, that what the Germans had was no atom bomb but a dirty
bomb. Whoever invented such a statement, it could start a debate. Someone
might pick up on the question, if the german bomb was no atom bomb but
dirty, is the atom bomb cleaner then?
This should build up some new paranoia.
best,
Christian.