I don’t think there was such a thing as ProQuest Congressional. The Congressional Record was strictly a print product.
If the Germans or Japanese had access to ProQuest Congressional they would have spotted the American atomic bomb project work from a mile away... full-text searching makes it quite easy to spot such things out of the mountain of paper generated by Congress.pic.twitter.com/k8g3Uii5NP
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There is such a thing today, and it is glorious. Fully-scanned PDFs, full-text searching, and they even have unpublished executive sessions where those have been released... as someone who started his PhD having to use microfilm for all Congressional matters, it is just the best.
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And what is the annual fee for accessing this kind of resource?
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Heck if I know. I get it through an institutional library. I doubt it is cheap.
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Japan and Nazi both detonated nukes despite Allies disinformation campaign. read Carter Hydrick book " Critical Mass". http://www.reformation.org/atlanta-constitution.html … https://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/07/09/the-secret-nazi-role-in-building-the-atomic-bomb/ …
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Not the case, alas — just propaganda rehashed by people who want to believe it, despite LOTS of good reasons not to. I am pretty open-minded, but these claims are junk, sorry. Some more long-form discussion on some of these matters:http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2015/01/07/bad-history-meets-bad-journalism/ …
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Truth does not change merely because you deny it. Disinformation ruled in nuclear projects since the Manhattan project. Read Heisenberg claim that he destroyed the German nuclear project. A vast overestimation of critical mass and design without reflectors or tampers.
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Von Ardenne team mastered uranium isotope separation. Hence the Stalin prize for Ardenne. Mass production of U235 read Carter Hydrick U238. Without a functioning reactor, Germany lacked adequate uranium bomb design. Hence the gross overestimation of critical mass by Heisenberg.
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In Rhodes’s Making of the Atomic Bomb he said the Germans and Japanese knew there was something going on because journal publications by US physicists suddenly ended
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Indeed. We discuss that in my book, "Atomic Audit." Ironically, this voluntary action by the scientists themselves (and not only in the United States) is what alerted scientists in the Soviet Union to the existence of a large, secret program to harness the power of the atom.pic.twitter.com/4b12nApWw7
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What ‘United Nations’ are they referring to in 1943?
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That's exactly how Stalin knew, a young Russian Physicist in Magnitogorsk realised the Allies were working on a bomb when all nuclear physicists stopped publishing in 1942
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Wouldn’t Dept of Interior’s Minerals Yearbook be good for open-source intel on industry? Bet there was a copy in Moscow, if not Berlin.
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Thanks you Alex for your wonderful research...
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Good thing they didn't.
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Easy to forget how much easier it was to keep information safe back then… not only no real threat of remote access, not only extremely limited international travel, even bilingually was limited to a sliver of the population
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Compare + contrast with the role of Klaus Fuchs!
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Fortunately we had them pinned down in other places. The Japanese lacked any competent nuke scientists and the Germans had a puny Heavy Water investment in Norway. We would have bombed anything that looked like Y-12 .
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