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The Russian daredevil who helped to build America's nuclear weapon
[Russia Beyond] U.S. Colonel Boris Pash (1900 — 1995) was a typical 20th-century American ’badass’ — he hated the communists’ guts, took German cities almost single handedly in WWII and captured the Nazis’ nuclear energy resources. And he was Russian.A wartime chronicle of 1945 shows a group of American and British soldiers, smiling and waving hands, as they advance eastward from liberated France towards the German cities. They belonged to a very specific unit — the joint U.S.-UK ’Alsos Mission’ team, whose aim was to get their hands on Germany’s atomic secrets before the Soviets, for the sake of American and British nuclear programs. And Alsos Mission was a huge success. "The captured uranium, the documents and the scientists were worth their weight in gold for the Manhattan Project and for the future Cold War," explains British WWII historian Mark Felton in the documentaryHunting Heisenberg: Capturing Germany’s Atomic Secrets. Posted by: Besoeker 2023-07-30 |
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