Critical mass : how Nazi Germany surrendered enriched uranium for the United States' atomic bomb

On May 19, 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News reporters covering the surrender of U-234 were ordered, contrary to all previous and later U-boat surrender procedures, to keep their distance from crew members and passengers of U-234, on threat of being shot by the attending Marine guards. Why the tight security? Buried in the nose of the specially-built mammoth boat, sealed in cylinders "lined with gold," was 1,120 pounds of enriched uranium labeled "U235"the fissile material from which atom bombs are made. Critical Mass documents how these Nazi bomb components were then used by the Manhattan Project to complete both the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki, to defeat the Japanese and win World War Two and global domination in the modern age. On 19 May 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News reporters covering the surrender of U-234 were ordered, contrary to all previous and later U-boat surrender procedures, to keep their distance from crew members and passengers of U-234, on threat of being shot by the attending Marine guards. Why the tight security? Buried in the nose of the specially-built mammoth boat, sealed in cylinders ""lined with gold”, was 1,120 pounds of enriched uranium labelled ""U235""the fissile material from which atom bombs are made. This book documents how these Nazi bomb components were then used by the Manhattan Project to complete both the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki, to defeat the Japanese and win World War Two and global domination in the modern age. "The previously secret--now declassified--unpublished military, governmental, intelligence and Department of Energy documentation cited throughout 'Critical Mass' suggests the atomic bomb was not fully developed and built by American scientists and technicians, as traditional, long-standing history asserts. Instead, the evidence shows enriched uranium and other atomic bomb components developed by Nazi Germany were surrendered to United States forces during the final weeks of the war--probably according to prearranged surreptitious agreements--and were a vital part of the materials used to create the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki."--Introduction. "The previously secret--now declassified--unpublished military, governmental, intelligence and Department of Energy documentation cited throughout 'Critical Mass' suggests the atomic bomb was not fully developed and built by American scientists and technicians, as traditional, long-standing history asserts. Instead, the evidence shows enriched uranium and other atomic bomb components developed by Nazi Germany were surrendered to United States forces during the final weeks of the war--probably according to prearranged surreptitious agreements--and were a vital part of the materials used to create the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki."-- Introduction