German ore and the atomic bomb

What if the Germans put all their intelligence and researchers into creating a weapon such as the atomic bomb? If all the scientists and brilliant researchers were to focus on a weapon to end the war "quickly" and continue expansion, there could have been a possibility that the Germans could have actually invented the atomic bomb.

 

True, this was the allies worst fear. However the Germans gave up on the atomic bomb long before the end of the war. They decided that the time and effort needed was too much for something that might not work.
So they put all their effort into the V2 project

 

The germans give up in 1942, after Heisengerb said that A-Bomb is possible but not in near future.

"Still, it is clear that German physicists, for whatever reason, did fail to push hard enough to reach the goal. Some attribute that to surprising technical errors, like a grotesque overestimate of the amount of fissile material that was needed and a failure to realize that readily available graphite, if highly purified, could be used to moderate the atomic reaction instead of scarce, hard-to-get heavy water. Others blame arrogance and complacency on the part of German physicists who felt that if the job was hard for them, it would be impossible for the Allies. And some believe that there was a genuine reluctance to work on such an awesome weapon, either for moral reasons or for fear of failing and being blamed for a national defeat.

Recordings made surreptitiously of Heisenberg and other German scientists held in captivity after the German surrender show that they were stunned by news that the United States had exploded an atomic bomb over Hiroshima and refused to believe that it had actually been done. Even in these early recordings, one can discern the beginnings of a search for the moral high ground, as one German physicist contrasts the American development of "this ghastly weapon of war" with more peaceful nuclear reactor research under Hitler."

Hitler Atomic Bomb

[ 11. January 2004, 04:37 PM: Message edited by: cristi ]

 

The japanese project was very advanced, on 12 august 1945 they tested a bomb.
I am not sure that is true.
On this site i read about it.

The Competition To Build Atomic Bomb