Not feasible for them, they didn&#x27;t have a supply of uranium ore, nor the industrial capability to make use of it.  I think if the Germans had done <i>everything</i> right and started in earnest soon enough (they didn&#x27;t, period), they could have rode the plutonium path to a working bomb in time.<p>But sometimes the smallest of things derails you.  The scientists&#x27; saving throw for a real program failed when the bigwigs Nazis were invited to a seminar, but the secretary sending out the invitations accidentally included in the packets the agenda for a different and very technical seminar they&#x27;d have no interest in.