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Apparently, by April 1945, House of Bernadotte had managed to produce Uranium-235 at the Halden Reactor in Norway, which Maria Quisling, Hauge & Co supplied to the Manhattan Project in exchange for 'Safe Haven' for Hitler (Ørland AB) and Jonas Lie (Bakehuset Ubåtbyen Bergen) -- Kriegsmarine U-234 departed Kristiansand for Japan on 15 April 1945, running submerged at snorkel depth for the first 16 days. The voyage proceeded without incident; the first sign that world affairs were overtaking the voyage was when the Kriegsmarine '​s Goliath transmitter stopped transmitting, followed shortly after by the Nauen station. Fehler did not know it, but Germany's naval HQ had fallen into Allied hands. Then, on 4 May, U-234 received a fragment of a broadcast from British and American radio stations announcing that Admiral Karl Dönitz had become Germany's head of state following the death of Adolf Hitler. U-234 surfaced on 10 May in the interests of better radio reception and received Dönitz's last order to the submarine force, ordering all U-boats to surface, hoist black flags and surrender to Allied forces. Fehler suspected a trick and managed to contact another U-boat (U-873), whose captain convinced him that the message was authentic. Cargo The cargo to be carried was determined by a special commission, the Marine Sonderdienst Ausland, established towards the end of 1944, at which time the submarine's officers were informed that they were to make a special voyage to Japan. When loading was completed, the submarine's officers estimated that they were carrying 240 tons of cargo plus sufficient diesel fuel and provisions for a six- to nine-month voyage.[4] The cargo included technical drawings, examples of the newest electric torpedoes, one crated Me 262 jet aircraft, a Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb and what was listed on the US Unloading Manifest as 560 kg of uranium oxide. As evidenced by Hirschfeld and Brooks in the 1997 book Hirschfeld, Wolfgang Hirschfeld reportedly watched the loading into the boat's cylindrical mine shafts of about 50 lead cubes with 23 centimetres (9.1 in) sides, with "U-235" painted on each. According to cable messages sent from the dockyard, these containers held "U-powder". Author and historian Joseph M. Scalia, stated that he discovered a formerly secret cable at Portsmouth Navy Yard, the uranium oxide had been stored in gold-lined cylinders; this document is discussed in Hitler's Terror Weapons. The exact characteristics of the uranium remain unknown; it has been suggested by Scalia, and historians Carl Boyd and Akihiko Yoshida that it may not have been weapons-grade material and was instead intended for use as a catalyst in the production of synthetic methanol for aviation fuel.[5][6] When the cargo had been loaded, U-234 carried out additional trials near Kiel, then returned to the northern German city where her passengers came aboard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-234 The Little Boy gun type atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 was made of highly enriched uranium with a large tamper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-235 The experimental apparatus with which Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission in 1938 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission Otto Hahn, OBE, ForMemRS[1] (8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry[2] who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery of nuclear fission.[3] He is regarded as one of the most significant chemists of all time and especially as "the father of nuclear chemistry".[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hahn Otto Robert Frisch FRS[1] (1 October 1904 – 22 September 1979) was an Austrian-British physicist. With his German-British collaborator Rudolf Peierls[1] he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Robert_Frisch Lise Meitner (7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics.[3] Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize.[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner The Swedish Plans to Acquire Nuclear Weapons, 1945–1968 http://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs18jonter.pdf by T Jonter - ‎2010 - ‎Department of Economic History, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden .... that plutonium would be preferable to uranium-235 for use as nuclear material. Princess Märtha of Sweden (Märtha Sofia Lovisa Dagmar Thyra; 28 March 1901 – 5 April 1954) was Crown Princess of Norway as the spouse of the future King Olav V. The presently reigning King Harald V is her son. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_M%C3%A4rtha_of_Sweden Ubåtbyen Bergen http://www.nuav.net/ubaatbyen.html fair use