His return offers the opportunity for individuals who missed him during his visit in November 2004, or perhaps did not get the opportunity to ask questions after the last presentation to attend his second talk.
At the talk, Hydrick will present documentation that demonstrates a surrendered Nazi submarine, or U-boat, U-234, contained 560 kilograms of enriched uranium oxide, as well as other atomic-bomb components that were used by the Manhattan Project to complete both the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki to defeat the Japanese, win World War II and usher in the Nuclear Age.
Hydrick's presentation will position the contents of Nazi submarine U-234 as vital to the Manhattan Project's efforts. Was its arrival on American shores a pivotal event in atomic history, as Hydrick argues, or an unimportant footnote, as most traditional historians suggest? Hydrick will discuss this issue at Tuesday's talk.
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