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There was very little choice in the, there was a very serious fear that Nazi Germany was already well along in this work. If Hitler got an atomic bomb he could likely win the war in Europe very easily. It was necessary first to determine the difficulties and second if those difficulties could be surmounted to try to make atomic bombs before Germany could (if possible).

It was unknown that the German project had faltered and when Werner Heisenberg (the project's director) tried to pass this information on to Niels Bohr in occupied Copenhagen Bohr misinterpreted the report as either disinformation or a veiled threat of the German's progress toward the atomic bomb. When Niels Bohr escaped to England his report of Werner Heisenberg's comments only increased the concern about a possible Nazi atomic bomb being eminent.

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