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They used an axe to cut a rope to swing a rod into a pile to create the first example of fission in Chicago. Edged weapon. Go figure.

I am already reminded of the conference before Market Garden where we were challenged to spot the "Stars", starting with 007 of course.

Every known British actor (OK Matt Damon I admit), in a fillum backed for many an Oscar.

The idea that "The Nazis" were well ahead. Their Heavy Water research was a dead end, as we now know.

Peaky Blinders translated to New Mexico….no, I am being cynical. Let me delete this. It is a great plot idea for a film and the story is fantastic. It may live up to it.

Saw the movie, it was great. Highly recommended.

They do mention in the movie that the Germans were way behind in using heavy water as a moderator. They also used graphite as in the Manhattan Project. The problem was, the German graphite was impure and wouldn't work. So they turned to heavy water which can work as a moderator but it would be difficult.

The reality is that Heisenberg gave up on making a bomb in 43. He told Speer that it would take 10 years to build a bomb and that the Allies could not build one in time to use in the war. So he would instead concentrate on nuclear energy as a power source.

There were several other bomb projects in Germany. The effort was not centralized and Heisenberg had limited control over the effort. It became nearly impossible to build anything as allied bombing destroyed laboratories and facilities. Then Allied armies began to overrun the country. None of the German reactor designs ever went critical. Heisenberg's eighth and final design almost went critical. That was as close as they got.

All the major warring nations had atomic bomb projects. But only the US had the resources required to construct a weapon in time to use it. When Heisenberg learned of Hiroshima he simply could not believe it.