OT: Nazi Nuclear Bomb

[Warfare1]

I don't know anything about a dirty bomb explosion in Germany.

However, check out the links I gave about U-234 - it was carrying several boxes of uranium oxide and shipping it to Japan.

This fact raises several questions:

1) Germany felt Japan could use the material. How so? How far along was Japan in its bomb development? Or was Japan just going to use the stuff in its Kamikaze planes to attack US invasion forces?

2) Did Germany test a small "dirty bomb" but decided NOT to use it against Allied forces (since it was doomed anyway?).

[Warfare1]

I posted this in another thread, but it seems to be useful here as well:

"New research indicates that the Japanese had closer to 13,000 (12,700) planes being held in reserve in the home islands to attack the American invasion ships.

This doesn't include the hundreds of smaller vessels that were packed with explosives and were to be used to ram landing craft..."

The mind simply boggles at the casualties the Japanese could have inflicted upon the American invasion forces, especially had those planes been packed with "dirty bomb material" (ie uranium oxide).

Had an invasion of the Japanese home islands been undertaken, then the number of deaths (of both Japanese and Americans) would have dwarved the number of casualties caused by the atomic bombs exponentially...