Nazi Germany nuclear weapon project

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Nazi_Germany_nuclear_weapon_project

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event nuclear test
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:German_nuclear_weapon_project gptkb:Uranverein
gptkbp:category	Abandoned military projects of Nazi Germany Nuclear history of Germany Nuclear weapons programs World War II science
gptkbp:cause	Allied bombing lack of resources internal competition scientific miscalculations lack of uranium enrichment capability shortage of heavy water
gptkbp:country	gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkbp:documentedIn	gptkb:Farm_Hall_transcripts gptkb:Operation_Epsilon declassified Allied reports
gptkbp:endDate	1945
gptkbp:fieldOfWork	nuclear fission nuclear physics uranium enrichment heavy water production
gptkbp:goal	develop nuclear weapons
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Nazi Germany nuclear weapon project
gptkbp:influenced	Allied nuclear research postwar nuclear policy
gptkbp:influencedBy	discovery of nuclear fission Albert Einstein's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt Lise Meitner's interpretation of fission Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann's experiments
gptkbp:keyPerson	gptkb:Friedrich_Paneth gptkb:Abraham_Esau gptkb:Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizsäcker gptkb:Erich_Bagge gptkb:Erich_Schumann gptkb:Ernst_Rexer gptkb:Fritz_Houtermans gptkb:Gottfried_von_Droste gptkb:Hans_Geiger gptkb:Harald_von_Boehmer gptkb:Horst_Korsching gptkb:Josef_Mattauch gptkb:Karl_Wirtz gptkb:Klaus_Clusius gptkb:Kurt_Diebner gptkb:Max_von_Laue gptkb:Otto_Hahn gptkb:Paul_Harteck gptkb:Robert_Döpel gptkb:Walter_Bothe gptkb:Walther_Gerlach gptkb:Werner_Heisenberg gptkb:Wilhelm_Groth gptkb:Wilhelm_Hanle gptkb:Otto_Haxel gptkb:Georg_Joos
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Berlin gptkb:Haigerloch gptkb:Hechingen gptkb:Leipzig gptkb:Norway gptkb:Stuttgart
gptkbp:material	gptkb:uranium graphite heavy water
gptkbp:notableMission	gptkb:Haigerloch_reactor gptkb:Leipzig_L-IV_reactor gptkb:Uranmaschine German nuclear reactor experiments Berlin-Dahlem experiments
gptkbp:oversees	gptkb:Kaiser_Wilhelm_Institute gptkb:Reich_Research_Council gptkb:German_Army_Ordnance_Office
gptkbp:relatedEvent	gptkb:Operation_Alsos gptkb:Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Manhattan_Project gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:result	did not produce a nuclear weapon
gptkbp:startDate	1939
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:The_Heavy_Water_War
gptkbp:bfsLayer	8