Thoughts, @wellerstein ?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/obituaries/joachim-ronneberg-dead.html …pic.twitter.com/Bq9RCee5Hq
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Every scrap of evidence points to the German program being a small one, due to decisions in 1942 not to pursue any kind of crash project. They did have a small reactor program. There is really no way to imagine them getting a bomb from that, even without sabotage.
I understand why in an obit of this sort they want to play up the heroism and dashing effort — I get that. But it's another thing to say that this is what kept the Germans from getting a bomb. They didn't know that when they did the mission, of course. But we do now.
