well, if you were CIC and you did not know this to be a fact >>>There was no chance of Germany ever developing their nuclear bomb by the time 1945 rolled around<<< My understanding of the situation (on "after the war" hindsight) is that the Germans and the Japanese knew about the destructive power of A-weapons they just did not think the Americans were capable of making one on the other hand, I assume we always thought the Germans and the Japanese were capable just saying