"Denyav" wrote in message
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Yes he did. His experimental reactor at Stadtilm was a
heavy water moderated design and his job tiltles included
Commissioner for Norwegian HeavyWater Production

He was the scientific leader of Heavy water production in Norway and
according
to his own testimony enough amounts of Heavy water arrived in Germany in
Aug/Sep 44 from Norway.

For his use but half was allocated to Heisenberg

By the time the Heavy water from Norway arrived,it was no longer needed.

Then why ship it when shipping is critically short ?

He
failed, the reactor never achieved criticallity, ironically


Quite so.

however they did accidentally discover that they got
greater neutron miltiplication amongst the graphite blocks
sourrounding the reactor than with the uranium assembly
in the reactor itself. At last in Marc
1945 they had
stumbled on the fact that graphite could be used as a
moderator, far too late to use that

Strange,von Ardenne team reported as early as in Sep.42 that graphite
could be
used as moderator alternative!.


But then concluded it could not after test with impure material

No such seizure was made and the maximum production during the
war was around 140 kg per month

Yeah right,no such seizure ever made and also Saddam was about to build a
nuclear arsenal,German scientists forgat in 1945 what they knew in 1941,NV
Patrol boats attacked USS Maddox,Communists burned down Reichstag etc,etc.


Evasion noted

No their period of original work came after the war when they
worked in the Soviet nuclear program.

No they were two of three most important scientists of German nuclear
effort.
Guess what who has been ordered to built Soviet Bomb in Aug.45 by the
Beria,A
soviet scientists or von Ardenne?.

Academician I.V. Kurchatov

(Obviously NKVD boss knew something about German bomb and its creators)
von Ardenne,knowing that he could never see Germany again if he accepted
Berias'offer and built a bomb for SU,diplomaticaly argued that soviet
scientists not germans should have leading role (federfuehrung) in making
of
the soviet bomb,and germans should support them.That the reason why the
soviet
bomb was built under sobiet management.


Hardly, there were hired hands working on designs fed
to them from Soviet agents at Los Alamos

BTW ,Houtermans was a devoted Communist and anti-Nazi activist,he was in
Soviet
Union before WWII and was put into jail during Stalins cleansing campaign.
When he (a German citizen) was arrested by Stalins henchmen,British gov't
protested and requested his immediate release,British protest was
accompanied
by a threat of suspending commercial relations with SU.
After British protest he was released and went back to Germany,or more
precisely to Gestapo HQ.
Have you any idea why British gov't acted so for a German citizen and
communist
jailed in Soviet Union?,


This is fiction. Houtermans married physicist Charlotte Riefenstahl in
August 1931, he left Germany in 1933 at the insistent request of Charlotte,
and worked in Great Britain, near Cambridge. But in 1935, he agreed to a
proposal of Alexander Weissberg, a Russian communist childhood friend,
for an appointment at the Institute of Physics of Kharkhov, USSR

His wife and their two small children managed to escape and get to the
United States. In prison, Houtermans was tortured until he confessed
to be a "trotskyist plotter" and a German spy, then he was imprisoned in
Moscow.

However, after the Hitler-Stalin pact of August 1939, he was handed over to
Gestapo by NKVD and imprisoned in Berlin in May 1940. He was discharged in
August 1940 thanks to Max von Laue, who found a job for him at the
industrial
lab of Manfred von Arden (in November 1940).

Actually the only German researcher who could have produced
a bomb was Paul Harteck who attempted to develop the
centrifuge enrichment process with virtually no official
backing.

Surely Harteck is one of founders of centrifuge enrichment technology and
his
published studies are among thr best ,but in centrifuge technology Germany
was
decades ahead of the rest of the world,there were many talents in this
field
Zippe and Steenbeck for example.
Might be a little bit subjective,but I consider Dr.Zippe as the most
important
contributor to centrifuge technology .

Perhaps but their work was given no priority by the Nazis
and failed to enrich more than a few grams of material.

Keith