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Oh dear. Misrepresentation & invention.
Harteck was working on heavy water until 1943. He didn't even propose centrifuges until 1943, & was still experimenting at the end of the war.
You quote Erhard Milch, as if he was a reliable witness. Why?
Heisenberg reading a paper does not prove that he accepted its conclusions. BTW, have you read it? How's your German? The disputes over Heisenbergs calculations of critical mass are require one to believe either that he made one erroneous calculation, & never got it right until after the Hiroshima bomb, or that he made a roughly correct calculation, mentioned it to a few people then discarded it in favour of an erroneous one. We know for sure that he made the erroneous calculation: it's recorded, & he demonstrated it to his interned colleagues at Farm Hall. Why do you suggest that having got it right, he would then get it wrong? Are you suggesting that he was deliberately trying to sabotage the bomb project? If so, how is that consistent with your idea that his correct calculation (if it existed) was a positive contribution to a Nazi bomb?
BTW, consider the implications of Milch being right. Why did he not follow it up? Why did he pay no attention to such a critical project, only needing a lump of metal the size of a pineapple? Why didn't he notice that working assumptions contradicted what he had been told?
You cite a claim that the Germans actually made several tactical nuclear weapons. If so, why were they never used, nor found?
Can you explain why the project was scaled back from 1942, if it was so successful? Why was the number of scientists reduced? Why were resources diffused?
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