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Did you Know? The Axis Powers were developing a dirty bomb.
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Following the failure of attempts to construct a nuclear weapon, the Axis countries contemplated using what they had to explode a "dirty bomb" on the west coast of the United States, utilising I-400 class submarines from Japan to transport the uranium manufactured in Germany. However, the uranium never made it to Japan and was most likely utilised in the Hiroshima atomic bomb.