Critical Mass
as our understanding of the Nuclear Age. The facts reveal not only importantnew information about the race to produce the bomb; but the new information helpsus understand how the sum of the history of man was combined in one brief momentto create a critical mass in humanity that shattered the old world foreverand ushered in the Nuclear Age.
The previously secret (now declassified) unpublished military, state,intelligence and Department of Energy documentation cited throughout CriticalMass suggests that the atomic bomb was not fully developed and built byAmerican scientists and technicians, as the traditional and long-standinghistory asserts. Instead, the evidence shows that enriched uranium and otheratomic bomb components developed by Nazi Germany were surrendered to UnitedStates forces during the final weeks of the war - probably according toprearranged surreptitious agreements - and were a vital part of the materialsused to create the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Theevidence indicates that without these materials the United States would havefallen short of achieving its nuclear weapons objectives.
Interwoven into this story - in fact, integral to it - is provocativeevidence that connects Hitler's behind-the-scenes right-hand man, Nazi PartyChief Martin Bormann, to Germany's very nearly successful effort to create anatomic bomb; and to Germany's last-ditch efforts to transfer that technologyto Japan. Evidence also suggests that Bormann, at the latest possible moment,turned against his Asian ally and decided to hand the keys of world dominion -in the form of the atomic bomb - to any Allied country that would treat withhim. Thus Bormann covertly negotiated a separate, and very secret, personalpeace with the United States that allowed him to disappear from the front pageof history and slide silently between the shadows of a murky past and aphantasmal future.
The events that initiated this story have each lead to astounding newrevelations that had the net effect of continually, and, seeminglyunendingly, expanding the scope of this book. As a private citizen whoresearched and wrote the book around the demands of a full-time job and who,with the aid of generous friends and family, financed the research andwriting, generating unlimited resources to constantly expand the book's scopewas impossible. Despite desires to throw light in every corner, provingthe premises presented in Critical Mass has, of necessity, been circumscribedto proving the following basic assertions:
1. That the Manhattan Project was not successful producing all of theneeded enriched uranium - isotope U235 - in time to fulfill its atomicbomb requirements, nor was it successful creating a triggering device forthe plutonium bomb without the help of captured German components.
2. While not proving conclusively that uranium was enriched in Germany, it wouldbe demonstrated that there was potential in Germany, despite the traditionalhistory that states otherwise, for the Nazi program to successfully enrichU235. Enrichment would have been in quantities that could have supplied thebomb-grade uranium needed by the United States to complete its atomic bombproject. Also, that Germany successfully developed a triggering mechanism usablefor the plutonium bomb.
3. That U235 for the uranium bomb, and infrared fuses for the plutonium bomb,were obtained by the U.S. from Germany and were transferred into the possessionof the Manhattan Project and ultimately used in the bombs dropped on Japan.
As a matter of sufficiently authenticating the above assertions, I have triedto obtain a minimum of two corroborating pieces of evidence to validate thetheories presented. In almost every case, as will be seen, this has
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