Atomic Sealion

[Gary Oswald]

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[The Red]

If memory serves Heisenberg's reactor would have been more likely to kill everyone in its vicinity rather than anyone in London or Moscow, although it might make for a good vignette about WAllied troops happening upon a mysterious underground complex which has been filled with cement in early 1945.

 

[Thande]

Now there's an article title.

If memory serves Heisenberg's reactor would have been more likely to kill everyone in its vicinity rather than anyone in London or Moscow, although it might make for a good vignette about WAllied troops happening upon a mysterious underground complex which has been filled with cement in early 1945.

As Turtledove represented in Worldwar, IIRC.

 

[Coiler]

Now there's an article title.

It's a fun question to ask: "Which pipe dream was more of one: Sealion or the German atomic bomb?"

 

[FriendlyGhost]

...The turning point of the war came when German scientists, unable to solve the problem of scaling down a possible atomic bomb, instead received the go-ahead from the Kriegsmarine to build an atomic-powered vessel. The massive Atom-Unterzee-boot, or AU-boot for short, nicknamed 'der Seelöwe' by the soldiers who travelled in it, passed under the British defences and surfaced in the centre of London on the night of 8th November 1941...