Question

German scientists were concerned about Nazi restrictions on uranium sales because uranium would not be available for industrial research. uranium was important to German missile programs. uranium paid for German scientific research. uranium could be used in research on atomic weapons.

Answer 1

The first option is correct – German scientists were concerned because restrictions on uranium procurement meant it would not be available as required, for scientific research.

Nazi Germany had a top-secret nuclear weapons programme, to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. For this they had several physicists, scientists and engineers drafted to work for the Wehrmacht, which was the unified German armed forces.