SCIENTISTS AND SPACE EDITOR

A NUCLEAR WARHEAD, said to have been made with plutonium stolen by German agents and then fired at Russian troop concentrations in Germany, has turned up on Mars, according to secret Pentagon files found in a fast food restaurant rest room last week.

A NASA rover, exploring the red planet, is said to have come across the remains of a German V2-A1 intercontinental rocket, believed to have been fired from a U-Boat off Florida in the last weeks of the Second World War in Europe.

The classified documents apparently say that the warhead at the top of the rocket was intact when found. The White House is supposedly fully informed and is trying to decide on what to do about the matter. It refuses to comment though.

Private German sources do confirm that Fuhrer Adolf Hitler did order a commando raid into New Mexico in March 1945, to steal plutonium from the Los Alamos nuclear facility, where the US and its allies were developing the first Atom Bombs under the leadership of Robert Oppenheimer.

The belief was that the plot failed, but this discovery indicates that the German rocket, which was capable of leaving earth orbit, may well have been fired and somehow found its way to Mars over the decades. The question of how that happened is yet to be answered.

The mystery may not be ventilated in public again as the US Government has placed a total top security gagging order on all discussion of the issue, and officially denies the story has any substance, saying it is the fruit of a fertile imagination or a mischievous mind.

A novel on the subject – Ground Zero – was published in 1998 but nothing further was heard after that.