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To: Taro who wrote (842836)	3/14/2015 8:51:01 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572888

von Braun wasn't grabbed by the US. He and the rest of the rocket scientists delivered themselves to the US. It was clear to them if they didn't, the Soviets would grab them. I doubt if they debated the choice very long.

To: Taro who wrote (842836)	3/15/2015 1:53:02 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572888

Those scientists incl Werner von Braun - nukes are no good without delivery systems - were almost all grabbed by the US, True but there were other German scientists they grabbed: German physicists who worked on the Uranverein and were sent to the Soviet Union to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project included: Werner Czulius, Robert Döpel, Walter Herrmann, Heinz Pose, Ernst Rexer, Nikolaus Riehl, and Karl Zimmer. Günter Wirths, while not a member of the Uranverein, worked for Riehl at the Auergesellschaft on reactor-grade uranium production and was also sent to the Soviet Union. And as for delivery systems, it was the Russians who got Sputnik into orbit first.