Germany was the most powerful during World War II. Why was it the United States and not Germany that succeeded in developing the atomic bomb?

There are several main reasons why Germany was unable to build an atomic bomb during World War II:

1. The brain drain of a large number of Jewish scientists.

Jews are very smart. Hitler’s persecution of the Jews caused a large number of Jewish scientists and engineers to leave Germany and immigrate to the United States, leaving Germany with a shortage of scientific research talents (at least in highly sophisticated fields like the atomic bomb, there are not enough talents). As the saying goes, the flow of Jewish scientists into the United States has greatly strengthened the scientific research capabilities of the United States and played a huge role in the research of atomic bombs. Oppenheimer, the "Father of the Atomic Bomb", was also a Jew (he immigrated to the United States as a child).

2. Hitler’s war needs

Hitler wanted to rule the world, so many scientific research in Germany at that time was from the perspective of war. The Germans gave top priority to the development of rocket weapons and spent 550 million marks on this! The funding for the atomic bomb research project "Uranium Project" was only more than 1 million marks. Comparing the two, the latter's emphasis immediately pales in comparison. It can also be seen from here that Hitler did not attach great importance to atomic bomb research, or in other words, under the circumstances at that time, Hitler did not put atomic bomb research in the first place.

3. Sabotage by U.S. agents

Some people say that 90% of Germany’s atomic bomb research during World War II was actually completed. I don’t know where this 90% figure comes from, but I know it must be an exaggeration. Germany's atomic bomb research should have made some major breakthroughs, there is no doubt about this, but there is always one last shudder, and this "one shudder" is the most important. The Americans destroyed a German heavy water production plant in Norway, an important raw material for the production of atomic bombs.

So, why did the United States develop the atomic bomb in such a short time?

I think there are three main aspects. One is the strong support of the Roosevelt administration; the other is the day-and-night research of a large number of top scientists headed by Oppenheimer and the personal care of Einstein himself; the third is the U.S. agents I obtained information on Germany's atomic bomb research, and this has now been accepted by many people.

It can be said that the atomic bomb created by the United States stood on the shoulders of giants, and this giant was Germany!