How we got the A Bomb before the Germans did is beyond me. German anti-Semitism had something to do with it.
Here is a 1939 letter to FDR from one Jewish immigrant refugee:
It was rhetorical flourish. I know how we got the bomb.
Had the Germans not hated Jews they would own the world. They would be NASA. We stole all their aeronautical/rocket scientists, in fact we stole most of their scientists and left them with engineers that come up with words like Betäubungsmittelverschreibungsverordnung, 40 letters. This beauty means "regulation for requiring a prescription for an anesthetic."
I mean think about it. The Germans were liquefying coal to fuel a large portion ow their war machine. I mean they came up with this and just too late:
