Saturday, August 07, 2004

Nazi's and US

It is amazing how much the US military owes to Nazi's. Almost all modern military technology is pilfered from Nazi's. The ME 262 was the first fighter jet created near the end of WW2 (not in enough time to stop the Allies although). The V-2 rocket invented by a Nazi German who became a US citizen after the war and went on to lead the US space program into the sixties. The "Sturmgewehr", the world's first Assault Rifle, was created in 1943 by a German firm. And most importantly, in 1938 German scientists discovered it was possible to release atomic energy through nuclear fission. Of course this leads to the A-bomb. Luckily, the Nazi scientists didn't achieve their goal before "Americans" at New Mexico in 1945. I believe you've heard of Einstein (taught in Berlin until 1933), or J Robert Oppenheimer (learned everything he needed to know in fine German institutions), and many others. The argument could be made that mankind would have advanced technologically just the same without the Nazi Germans. But I don't believe it would have happened as fast. There was an urgency that the Nazi's had. This and their belief in scientific experimentation for military purposes greatly sped up mankind technological advancement (Or in-human moral depravity. However you want to read it.). Therefore, America is the world's most dominant military force, due in large part to Nazi's. It was a good move for the US to get into WW2 when we did.

2 Comments:

Nut a very good comment, Cory. Nut at all.

8/08/2004 02:27:00 PM  

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I was so excited when I learned Almond Joy did a dark chocolate version (instead of milk). Screw the non-nutty mounds, I want my Almond Joy in Dark Chocolate. Thank you very much. Because sometimes I feel like a nut.

8/08/2004 05:55:00 PM  

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