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The issue was power. It took as much or more energy to produce the Uranium bomb than the bomb unleashed when dropped. It was part of the reason why so much work went into the plutonium bomb.
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"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes years ago (very good book, BTW) and it gets into this subject
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A very good read indeed - Rhodes next book on the subject
"The Dark Sun" -
The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb is also very interesting.
At the end of all this - the Nazis were a fair ways off from achieving nuclear explosives before the end of the war. This story really belongs in Geraldo Rivera's portfolio.
Cheers
JB