Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major General Roscoe Charles Wilson, who held research and new weapons assignments during and after World War II, testified that Oppenheimer opposed detection devices to such an extent that "the overall effect was to deny the Air Force the mechanism which we felt was essential to determine when this bomb went off." As a result of this and other actions by Oppenheimer, General Wilson testified: "I felt compelled to go to the Director of Intelligence to express my concern over what I felt was a pattern of action that was simply not helpful to national defense." A Unique Scope...
Among the factors which led him to this conclusion. Borden wrote, were Oppenheimer's long record of close Communist associations which survived the Russian-Nazi pact of 1939, his financial contributions to Communist causes, his false statements to security officers, his stand on the H-bomb...
...spite of all this brilliance, it took twelve years to make the first V-2 fly operationally. This is three times as long as it took the U.S.'s Manhattan Project to produce the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. The reasons for the slow progress can be found in Dornberger's book, which is an unintentional treatise on how a novel weapon should not be developed...
...recalls regretfully that Germany had given up trying to make an atomic bomb...
...been armed with an atomic bomb, it might very well have won the war. Why no one realized this is probably explained by the amazing lack of coordination among Nazi bigwigs. Dornberger discovered in 1943 that practically no one at Hitler's headquarters had ever heard of the enormous Peenemünde base...