Originally Posted by Irishguy
Originally Posted by daylate
Ironically, their technology that led to nuclear weapons has kept it from happening again. The certainty of nuclear annihilation is a very strong deterrent to attempting world domination. But, I am convinced that it will happen again, and will result in nuclear holocaust when it does.


While a German scientist did discover nuclear fission, if I remember correctly when the allies finally conquered Germany we found that they were no where near as close to developing a nuclear bomb as we were.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_program_during_World_War_II#:~:text=The%20scholarly%20consensus%20is%20that,close%20to%20producing%20nuclear%20weapons.

Now what they did have in advance of us was a ballistic missile system. Hence "Project Paperclip."

Yes, that is why I said "led" to nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapon science was born in Germany even though they were unable to develop a nuclear weapon during the war. They were trying.