DEAD MEN'S SECRETS: Hitler's Nuclear Arsenal

DEAD MEN'S SECRETS: Hitler's Nuclear Arsenal

At the start of World War 2, the race was already on between the Nazis and the Allies to be the first to create an atomic weapon.By teaming up with the Japanese, Hitler planned to launch an atomic attack on San Francisco.

The date was set for August 17th, 1945.But on August 6th an American Superfortress dropped an atomicbomb on Hiroshima, and the war was finished. The race to nuclear war was won by the Allies - but only by a matter of days.

In April 1945, US troops uncovered some of scientist Werner Heisenberg's nuclear equipment in a cave near the Black Forest insouthern Germany.

In a nearby field, they found uranium cubes necessary for a reactor... and, in a mill, the last Nazi supply of Norwegian Heavy Water: all the necessary ingredients for a nuclear bomb.Archive footage of the German scientific work shows just how close the city of Los Angeles came to catastrophe.