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Scientists were deployed at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico and Fort Bliss, Texas to work on guided missile and ballistic missile technology, and led to the foundation of NASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA (established 1958) is the government agency responsible for the United States of America's space program and long-term general aerospace research. A civilian organization, it conducts (or oversees) re and the US ICBM program.

Over 700 members of the Nazi scientific community were brought to the US as a direct result of Operation Paperclip, many of whom were still ardent Nazi supporters.

Although PresidentThe President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. Under the U. Constitution, the President is also the chief executive of the federal government and commander in chief of the armed forces. Because of the superpower status of th Harry S. TrumanTruman Order 33rd President Term of Office April 12, 1945 January 20, 1953 Predecessor Franklin Delano Roosevelt Successor Dwight D. Eisenhower Date of Birth Thursday, May 8, 1884 Place of Birth Lamar, Missouri Date of Death Tuesday, December 26, 1972 Pla gave explicit orders not to allow any scientists who were thought to have strong Nazi leanings to enter the US under Operation Paperclip, many dossiers were re-written to "clean-up" the histories of many of the scientists involved, to prevent them and their expertise falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.

Much of the information surrounding Operation Paperclip is still classified.

Separate from Paperclip was an even-more-secret effort to capture German nuclearmushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 60,000 feet (18 km) above the epicenter. A nuclear weapon is a weapon that derives its energy from nuclear reactions and has enormous destructive power a single n secrets, equipment and personnel. See Operation AlsosDuring the final days of World War II in Europe, the American military conducted Operation Alsos to seize German nuclear resources, materials and personnel to further American research and to prevent their capture by the Soviets. Alsos is Greek for “grove.

Key figures:

• Wernher von Braun
• Bernhard Tessmann
• Arthur Rudolph
• Kurt Blome
• Major General Walter Schreiber
• Reinhard Gehlen
• Allen Dulles (Op architect)
• Alexander Lippisch
• Hans von Ohain

Key Locations:

• Nordhausen
• Mittlewerk/Dora Concentration Camp
• Peenemünde
• White Sands Proving Ground

See also:

• war crimes
• ODESSA
• Nazi medical experiments