How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bombs in relations to the USA in the 1940s?

by bullseyed_womp_rat
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See this section in the FAQ. Short answer: not close at all. By May 1945, the Germans were not quite yet at the stage that the US had surpassed in December 1942. The Germans did not have an atomic bomb program; they had a very modest, small-scale nuclear reactor program, and even that was not successful.