[Kiwiguy]

Jim your comments are almost hitting the nail on the head.

Germany had large reserves of uranium at what is now Jac-y-mov in Western Czechoslovakia (then called Jochimsthal)

Germans also knew how to enrich Uranium with the Harteck process invented by Dr Erich Bagge at Keil Unavernin in 1942.

The British however planted a Jewish German spy Paul Rosebaud in the Nazi scientific establishment and also milked Lise Meitner for information under what was known as Project Epsilon run from Stockholm.

The real reason behind Hamburg's massive bombing raids in July 1943 was destruction of the first Nazi nuclear enrichment plant at Hamburg.

The plant was shifted to Freiburg with the codename Volmer's Furniture Factory where British spies again called in air raids.

Finally with the code name Angora Farm it was shifted to Kandern in Austria.

Had Nazi Germany succeeded it would have been wasted against targets in the West. the only way one A-bomb would have made any impression was to bomb Moscow.

In October 1944 however, SS Lt Gen Dr Hans Kammler allowed Gen Walther Dornberger and Werner von Braun to fly to Lisbon for secret surrender talks with OSS officials. The price of that secret surrender was for Kammler to apply the brakes to nuclear weapons development in Germany.

Germany was taken of the Manhatten Project's list of priority bombing targets in october 1944 after this meeting.

Reference to post war Camp 11 transcripts of bugged conversations.