On 21 Feb 2006 10:17:38 -0800, in a place far, far away,
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

What nuclear scientists and engineers were snapped up by the A-4 program???

What nuclear scientists and engineers existed in Germany at all? Or
rocket scientists and engineers, for that matter? They were
engineers, and they learned on the job. They would have done the same
thing if they'd had to, on nuclear programs.


Or been sent to the Eastern Front.

Or not.

What chance would an A-4 aerodynamicist have on a nuclear physics
project??? The skills don't translate. And it's not like the
aerodynamicist - or anyone else from the A-4 program, for that matter -
could, after getting his pink slip, turn in an application a tthe Atom
Bomb Project.

They could if the Germans had been smart.

Those bumped from the A-4 program would have had virtually *no* chance
to make any useful contributions to the A-Bomb project.

That says less about their utility than it does about the
ineffectiveness of German decision making, which is what this thread
is all about.