The bombers had got through, inflicting great damage on London and Britain’s great cities. But they had not destroyed the morale of the British or their war industries. ibid.
Tinsel was the codename for microphones fitted to a bomber. ibid.
At about 6.30 p.m. on 8th September Londoners heard a huge double boom. A massive pall rose above Chiswick in west London ... A new revenge weapon: the V-2 rocket. Secrets of World War II e17: The RAF versus the V2
Scientists and technicians at Peenemunde pressed ahead with the rocket program. ibid.
At first Britain’s air defences were stretched to the limit ... Of the 4,000 V1s eventually brought down over southern England about half were brought down by artillery coordinated by radar. ibid.
The rocket had been designed at the cutting edge of technology. Its gyroscopic guidance system was far in advance of anything in the allied armoury and the electric tort, which drive the motors, was the smallest of its kind. But each V2 cost twenty times more than the V1 for just one ton of explosives. ibid.
Captured V weapons were displayed in Trafalgar Square. ibid.
The real winner in the story of the V weapons may have been Wernher von Braun. He surrendered to the Americans with his entire research team. ibid.
He [Bomber Harris] was convinced area bombing would shorten the demise of the war. Secrets of World War II e24: Destroying Hitler’s Oil
In June 1941 Hitler turned east against the Soviet Union. At a stroke Germany’s oil tap was turned off. ibid.
A great bunch of incandescent grapes falling. Hamish Mahaddie, RAF Pathfinder
The policy is obliteration, openly acknowledged. This is not a justifiable act of war. George Bell, 1883-1958, Bishop of Chichester, House of Lords address 9th February 1944
The Germans would fire over 9,500 V1s at southern England during the summer of 1944. Stephen Fry, Who Betrayed the Bombers Boys? Yesterday 2013
Carpet-bombing: ‘It would destroy the morale of the civilian population’. World War II in Colour e7: Turning the Tide, 2009
German city after city was hit and devastated. ibid.
By the time the V1s reach the capital city, their fuel is used up and their engines die out. Londoners never know where they will fall. Nearly 20,000 of these missiles were launched against England and continental Europe killing 11,000 people. World War II: The Apocalypse: Retreat and Surrender aka Apocalypse: The Second World War: Inferno, France 2 2009
The Fuhrer is far-sighted. He knows that the rocket is the weapon of tomorrow. Operation Crossbow 1965 starring George Peppard & Sophia Loren & Trevor Howard & John Mills & Tom Courtenay & Richard Johnson & Jeremy Kemp & Anthony Quayle & Lilli Palmer & Paul Henreid & Patrick Wymark & Richard Todd et al, director Michael Anderson, Nazi
London soon will stagger under the impact of 20,000 flying bombs. ibid.
The Fuhrer has ordered the total destruction of London. ibid.
We present the first footage of the V-2 missile on its flight to England. For reasons of secrecy it has been filmed from a long distance and offers only a vague idea of the real dimensions of the V-2. National Socialist propaganda film 1944
The results of a simple chemical experiment showed for the first time that the atom could be split, unleashing immense power. In the following months as Europe braced itself for war the Wehrmacht started a research programme to develop nuclear weapons. The Germans were the first to start work on the atom bomb. Why wasn’t Hitler the first to use it? Horizon: Hitler’s Bomb, BBC 1992
Beneath the church in a cliff there was a disused beer cellar. In it the Americans had found a nuclear reactor. An experiment on the brink of criticality. When these cubes of Uranium were immersed in heavy water a chain reaction would begin. A storm of neutrons would sweep through the reactor. Slowly the uranium would be transformed into Plutonium, the raw material of atomic bombs. ibid.
What made fission so dangerous was that as each uranium atoms splits it releases not only a huge amount of energy but it also liberates more neutrons. These can collide with further nuclei creating a hugely energetic chain reaction. ibid.
It is one of the great ironies of the war that just as the Wehrmacht was rejecting atom weapons, fear of a Nazi bomb was pushing America into is own massive nuclear project. ibid.
In 1939 on the eve of the Second World War Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the American president Franklin Roosevelt. The letter was about an application of Einstein’s famous equation: E=MC². And his fear that the Nazis could use it to build an atomic bomb. Horizon: Einstein’s Equation of Life and Death, BBC 2005
Albert Einstein would later describe ... the one mistake of his life. This is the story of his famous equation. ibid.
[Leo] Szilard was fearful it was only a matter of time before someone would find a way of harnessing the power of E=MC² and make a bomb ... What made Leo Szilard’s idea so brilliant was that here for the first time was a way of getting energy out of the atom without having to pump in vast amounts of power. All you had to do was set off one tiny neutron to trigger an unstoppable chain reaction. Leo Szilard had potentially found a way to unleash the power of E=MC² on Earth. But it was a discovery that terrified him. ibid.
In the wilderness of New Mexico the US government set up a top secret project codenamed Manhattan. From Einstein’s letter grew the biggest and most remarkable collaboration between science and the military the world has ever seen. ibid.
On a bright morning in August 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped. It fell through the air for forty-three seconds, and then a single neutron started Szilard’s chain reaction. The energy released as the first atom of Uranium split was only enough to make a grain of sand jump. And then the chain reaction became unstoppable ... Just 0.6 of a gram of mass converted into energy laid waste the city. ibid.
Einstein felt he had to bear some responsibility for the development of the atomic bomb. ibid.
It was one of the largest projects in the history of mankind. The Third Reich’s bomb-proof factory ... Gigantic underground plants would have kept the supply chain running for the Wehrmacht. Armaments minister Albert Speer had devised the monstrous plan for his Fuhrer. Today only a few may set foot in the remnants of the mammoth project. Hundreds of thousands of slave-labourers hollowed out entire mountains essential to the war effort. The Reich Underground: Terror from Below, Discovery 2004
Everywhere in the Third Reich the underground construction work was given the highest priority. ibid.
It was mostly slave labourers who had to do the dirty work in the tunnels under in-human conditions. ibid.
Inside the mountain the Nazis planned to build a total of thirty kilometres of passageways. By the end of the war almost half this distance had been blasted through the rock. ibid.
The production seldom ran smoothly. ibid.
The prime target of the destructive weapon was London. On September 7th 1944 the first V-2 struck at the heart of the British capital. ibid.
Did Churchill know more about Hitler’s plans for the V-3 than is known today? ibid.
An alpine fortress stretching into northern Austria … Fear of wonder weapons was understandable. Nazi Underworld: Nazi Gold, National Geographic 2013
The old mining tunnels were ideal places to build weapons. ibid.
The world’s first long-range ballistic missile ... More than a thousand V-2s were fired at Britain … Killed almost three thousand people. ibid.
The V-2 turned out to be extremely unreliable. It was Speer’s greatest flop. As useless as the monumental buildings in Berlin and Nuremberg. Hitler’s Henchmen: Speer the Architect
So he put it in a plastic shopping bag and walked it down to the police station ... Half a kilo of high explosives. Guy Walters, re Serge Klarsfeld receiving a bomb
The USA has bombed 50 countries since the end of the Second World War. Chris Everard, Illuminati I
Did you know that the Madrid Train bombs were exploded 911 days after September 11th 2001? Chris Everard, Spirit World I
A Federal Grand Jury in Detroit today charged the thirteen top leaders of the Weathermen with plotting to bomb public buildings in Chicago, Detroit, New York and Berkeley California. The Weathermen are the militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society. Green & Siegel, The Weather Underground, news broadcast, 2002