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Cafe Del Mar Ibiza Vol.7
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March 19, 2005

Hitler's small atom bomb

A German historian has presented evidence in a new book that Nazi scientists tested two crude atomic devices in the closing months of World War II.

It is thought that at the time of the tests the information was classified by the allies as top secret.

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