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By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide to 20th Century History since 1997

Schematic for Nazi Nuke

Friday June 3, 2005
Historians have discovered a schematic of a nuclear weapon that was designed by Nazi scientists. The drawing was found in an undated report believed to have been written immediately after the end of World War II. The report also includes a surprisingly accurate estimate of the minimum amount of plutonium needed to create a nuclear explosion -- something historians had not previously known the German scientists had determined.

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