Not close at all. Even if they had figured out exactly how to do it, the industrial infrastructure needed would have made it impossible for at least a decade. They simply lacked the resources. and besides, in 1945, Germany was already on the brink of defeat to even think about it.
when leo szilard invented the neutron chain reaction in 1933 it was used for nothing as it could not yet be built. his 1934 patent on it suggests using it as a more efficient way to transmute elements, other possible uses mentioned were atomic bombs and power reactors.it was not until 12 years later in 1945 after spending 2 billion dollars (mostly on industrial infrastructure) that the US was able to begin building atomic bombs.after testing one atomic bomb on july 16, the next 2 atomic bombs were used as weapons in combat against Japan on august 6 and 9. ending ww2.
Nagasaki (Japan) - 9 August 1945 - a bomb containing 6,4 kg of Plutonium 239
The atomic bomb was called 'Fat Man' it was also the first of only 2 atomic bombs to-date to be used in combat. It was dropped onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th 1945.
Trinity site, NM in the north east corner of what is now White Sands Missile Range, July 16, 1945
The atomic bombs dropped on Japan in WW2 (1945)
Because it wasn't ready. Germany surrendered May 8, 1945; the first atomic device was test exploded July 16, 1945.
1945 is best known for the collapse of Nazi Germany, the dropping of the Atomic bomb on Japan and the end of World War II.
The American and British government and military leaders never planned for using the first atomic bomb on Nazi Germany, but they did worry that Germany might have an advanced nuclear program, which they did. By the time Germany surrendered in May 1945, the American atomic bomb program still hadn't produced the first bomb.
The European war ended in May 1945 with the unconditional surrender of Germany and the war in the far east ended in August 1945 after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
Some [people close to the President did not like the idea.
Japan surrendered after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WW2 .
Hiroshima and Negasaki in Japan were the two cities destroyed my an atomic bomb in 1945.
if the atomic bomb had been available in 1944 it would have been used on germany not japan. the first atomic bombs were not built until july 1945, after germany had already surrendered so they were used on japan. nuclear fission in a neutron chain reaction.
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May 8th, 1945 is known as Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) because on that day the Allies accepted Germany's unconditional surrender at the close of WW2.