Where this became quite fascinating was in how it played out on the German battlefield. If either side—and that term in itself has significance, since it points to the cleavage already forming in the alliance—was to appear overly anxious to take possession of Germany’s uranium stores, it might alert the other side that their own atomic program was sufficiently advanced as to appreciate the need for it. To forestall that, as World War II drew to a close, both the Americans and the Soviets were operating highly specialized and highly secretive search teams in a race to grab up German atomic
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