Word: haigerloch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lethal Burst. Even if a respite from the incessant Allied bombing had given them more time, it now seems doubtful that German scientists could have worked their way past their repeated oversights and gaffes. When U.S. troops captured the site of the final uranium pile in Haigerloch, Germany, accompanying U.S. scientists were astonished to discover that the Germans had made absolutely no provision for protecting themselves against atomic radiation. Had a successful chain reaction begun on the day of the last test, the Nazis' nuclear physicists would have been showered by a harmful, and perhaps lethal, burst of radiation...
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