If einstein never left germany and hitler got him to give him the formula for the atomic bomb?

Question

how diffrent would the world be today?
and what would it be like?

Answer 1

It wouldn’t have mattered. There isn’t a formula for a nuclear weapon. E=mc2 just means matter converts to a lot of energy, not the practical problems of doing so. Einstein wasn’t involved in the actual manufacturing of the weapon, and the German program to build was well underway (starting in 1939) when Einstein sent his letter to Roosevelt about the idea. Germany’s nuclear weapons program was well under way. The problem was that Germany didn’t have the resources that the U.S. did to pursue the program, even though they had a head start in the area and better versed scientist. The Germans also erred in using heavy water rather than a centrifuge to try to enrich the Uranium-235 necessary for fission.

Answer 2

If Einstein never left Germany, there is the possibility that the United States would have never created the Atomic Bomb, and that Hitler would be control of the world, with the Third Reich reigning a thousand years as he foresaw.

Answer 3

The largest problem with an atomic bomb for Hitler would have been finding a way to deliver it. At the time the Luftwaffe had no long range bombers capable of delivering even regular bombs to America and while they had plans for aircraft carriers and even had one under construction and launched by 1938 it was never completed, never commisioned, and never used in battle and there were no more built. This was due largely to inner political turmoil amongst the High command.

That's not to say they couldn't however have adapted their V1 buzzbombs and V2 rockets to carry a nuclear payload. Germany did have plans for making their own atmoic bomb underway but alas couldn't develop a working prototype in time. A large part of the problem was it took alot of time and money to enrich enough Uranium just to build one bomb and with no assurance of success they were skepticle about the weapon's potential. In 1942 as the war continued to go against Germany especially after loss at the Battle of Stalingrad The German military began to focus more of it's resources on immediate needs than on long term projects like Uranium enrichment.

By 1945 the German researchers had failed to even reach critical mass with their Uranium stockpiles. A goal American researchers like Enrico Fermi had already achieved in 1942.

All that said I shudder to think what they would have been capable of had they been able to develope working atmoic bombs.

Answer 4

Einstein was a theoretician and wasn't very heavily involved in the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb, although he did write FDR.

A more likely possibilty would have been Werner Heisenberg, who remained in Nazi Germany.

Hitler was a maniac and there is no way the world at large could let him hold on to his conquests.

Answer 5

well it is my opinion that Hitler would have nuked a good portion of the soviet union.
I seriously doubt that the russian people would have given up willingly..especially to a science they really didn't understand.


I believe Hitler would have peacefully coexisted with Britian and the U.S.. the U.S. being an isolatist country and Britian only interested in retaining it's empire.
Neither country cared for the communist...nor would they really fight for it's survival..

Germany probably would own a good deal of the former soviet republic...Great Britian still would be a world power..

Nations like italy and spain would be ruled by dictatorships and warlords..

Answer 6

Hitler would not have taken the formula from Einstein if Einstein had given it to him on a silver platter. It would have been "Jewish science".