"When it is all said and done, we came out on top only by the grace of God." That could be closer to the truth than you realize.
When you think about the reason why Germany didn't develop the atom bomb first, you have to consider the men who did develop it. Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Rudolf Peierls, and Otto Frisch were all scientists who worked on developing the atom bomb. The common link is that they were all European Jews fleeing from the Nazi threat. Enrico Fermi headed the team developing the bomb, and while he was not Jewish, he fled Italy with his Jewish wife. So roughly half of the team of scientists who invented the atom bomb were Jews fleeing from the Nazi's.
Kind of a divine irony that Hitlers hatred of the Jews probably prevented him from developing the bomb and ultimately lost the war for him.
